{"id":4946,"date":"2013-09-19T01:13:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T06:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2013-09-19T03:32:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T08:32:25","slug":"yarning-along-mid-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4946","title":{"rendered":"yarning along: mid-september"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/tag\/yarn-along\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/yarnalong_gsheller_periwinkle.jpg\" align=left hspace=3 vspace=3><\/a>With the weather starting to crisp up, I have put socks on hold in lieu of larger, warmer work-in-progress. You may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4860\">remember<\/a> this shawl from the Tour de France knit-along, when I last worked on it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nearly done with panel #2 (of six or seven). What you see peeking over the book is all remains of that section &#8212; one zig and one zag. While I had a hard time at the beginning of the second panel with cleanly picking up the stitches at the edge of the first panel to tie them together, it&#8217;s gotten easier with time. That part&#8217;s still not mindless, but it&#8217;s the only part that isn&#8217;t. It makes for good tv\/line knitting.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/9814801564\/\" title=\"Yarning Along: Mid-September by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2837\/9814801564_35dab1ac2f.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Yarning Along: Mid-September\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The book is Jasper Fforde&#8217;s latest, <em>The Song of the Quarkbeast<\/em>, recently released in the U.S. It&#8217;s the second title in his Chronicles of Kazam series. I started it at the beach on Sunday and it&#8217;s quite enjoyable so far. (I did consider putting <em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone<\/em> in the picture instead, since it&#8217;s my bag book right now and since Harry&#8217;s scar ties in well with the Lightning Shawl, but the Fforde book was on the table, so its handiness merited a starring role in today&#8217;s blog post.)<\/p>\n<p>(Yarning along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/2013\/09\/yarn-along-145.html\">Ginny<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the weather starting to crisp up, I have put socks on hold in lieu of larger, warmer work-in-progress. You may remember this shawl from the Tour de France knit-along, when I last worked on it. I&#8217;m nearly done with panel #2 (of six or seven). 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