{"id":9275,"date":"2019-07-11T01:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:04:14","slug":"9275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9275","title":{"rendered":"tour de france unraveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/48255932667\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Tour de France KAL Unraveling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48255932667_602d2ff6f0.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Tour de France KAL Unraveling\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Corey is awake in this picture, although he&#8217;d been sleeping shortly before. No, he didn&#8217;t go after the yarn. Yes, he is a good kitten and I told him so.<\/p>\n<p>I have made it through the first section of my Tour de France knitalong shawl, which I have nicknamed Forever in Bike Shorts. <\/p>\n<p>There has been some tinking, when I screwed up the pattern stitch and couldn&#8217;t figure out how to fix a knit-1-below stitch I&#8217;d dropped down to repair. But it was relatively straightforward getting it back on the needles, although I definitely would prefer not to repeat that once there are several hundred stitches on my needles, rather than just several dozen. I should definitely not attempt to knit on this while sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>I did not end up picking either of the yarns I showed you on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9268\">Sunday<\/a>, nor the next one I tried the following day. But then, while hunting for something else, I came across this baggie of yarn I had unraveled from a sock-in-progress that had been attacked by a moth several years back. It&#8217;s Neighborhood Fibers in Dupont Circle and works really well with the Iris. (It has some purple variegation over the pink, so even when the MadTosh bleeds &#8212; the strong smell of vinegar suggests it will &#8212; it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem.) I&#8217;m excited to get to the mosaic section, although I admit that the skein now being in 12 balls ranging from a few yards to 200-300 yards is probably not quite ideal. But I will make it work because I am going to love the hell out of this thing when it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Much of my knitting thus far has been done not to bike racing on tv, but to the audiobook of Christina Uss&#8217; <em>The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle<\/em>, a middle-grade novel I started listening to in May, then had it expire on me as I was about halfway through. Bicycle grew up in a Nearly Silent Monastery in D.C. and instead of getting on a bus to go to a Friendship Factory the way her guardian intended (because she had a poor record of making friends herself), she took herself off on a cross-country bike ride to meet her cycling hero in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>When my hands aren&#8217;t occupied, I&#8217;m still reading <em>Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors<\/em> and <em>Red, White, and Royal Blue<\/em>. I&#8217;m about halfway through both. I need to finish the former by this weekend, because otherwise I&#8217;ll have to pay the library for returning it so late.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see what other folks are reading and crafting? Head to <a href=\"http:\/\/askatknits.com\/2019\/07\/10\/unraveled-wednesday-7-10-19\/\">As Kat Knits<\/a> to check out her round-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Corey is awake in this picture, although he&#8217;d been sleeping shortly before. No, he didn&#8217;t go after the yarn. 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