{"id":20533,"date":"2021-06-13T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2021-06-13T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:15:30","slug":"knitting-report-a-ribbed-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/06\/13\/knitting-report-a-ribbed-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Report: A ribbed scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I had decided a few years ago to post pictures of stuff I knit, because (a) I\u2019d kinda like the record of my stuff and this is as good a way as any to keep it, and (2) why the heck not.\r\n<p>Also\u2014a lot of the knitting on the internet is incredibly good. Mine isn\u2019t! Some of it is pretty good, but a lot of it is just fairly good. Or middling good. Which isn\u2019t terrible! I like the idea of somebody looking at a thing I made and not being intimidated by it. I\u2019m not a professional, and I\u2019m not even a particularly avid hobbyist. Mostly, I make scarves in order to keep my hands busy during rehearsals or car rides or movies, and then I donate them to shelters because I figure people can always use scarves. I think I make pretty nice scarves, but they\u2019re not generally things I that I want to show off.\r\n<p>Anyway, as I said, I had decided a few years ago that I would post pictures of the knitted stuff I finished, and then, as with so much of this Tohu Bohu, failed to fulfil my intentions. Phooey.\r\n<p>I bring it up now because I have just finished a scarf, and taken a picture, and I am going to post it. Here goes:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/06\/ribbed-scarf-small-scaled.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/06\/ribbed-scarf-small-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of a turqoise-and-black ribbed scarf arranged in a loop on a wire-topped patio table\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20534\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p>The thing about this scarf is that it\u2019s well below my standards for a finished thing. It\u2019s not <i>terrible<\/i> and it\u2019s structurally sound (it\u2019s not going to unravel if somebody tugs at it), but there are lots of visible errors and minor uglinesses. It was a new technique for me, and I learned a lot in doing it, and I may very well do another very similar scarf soon that won\u2019t have as many problems. But this one is right on the edge of embarrassing. I mean, it\u2019s fine, and the important thing you can\u2019t tell from the picture is that it\u2019s soft and warm.\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been knitting for forty-five years, more or less, and I\u2019m still learning stuff. So that\u2019s all right.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger shares work that is not the best, but that's the point, innit.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20535,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions\/20535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}