{"id":1519,"date":"2014-06-10T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2014-06-10T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:00:09","slug":"annetarsia-the-cat-spit-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2014\/06\/annetarsia-the-cat-spit-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Annetarsia -the &#8220;Cat spit&#8221; stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to everyone, even me.\u00a0 Those of you who think that I escape the Cat spit stage because I am magic, or something&#8230;no.\u00a0 Not true.<\/p>\n<p>To prove it, here is the Craftsy plaid mitt that I knit last night. I didn&#8217;t do any tidying as I went, this is right off the needles, and the thumb isn&#8217;t knit yet (Those sts are on a piece of orange yarn to secure them)<\/p>\n<p>Annetarsia is fast, easy, and eventually looks great, but at this stage it isn&#8217;t pretty.\u00a0 But lots of things aren&#8217;t always pretty until they are finished (Lace, I&#8217;m looking at you!) So, if your knitting looks messy in progress, it doesn&#8217;t mean that you aren&#8217;t doing it right.\u00a0 Keep going!!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1516\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_12841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1516\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_12841-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"From the RS, but unblocked, no ends buried, right off the needles.  Thumb sts are on a piece of yarn, waiting to be picked up to knit the thumb.  Notice the really loose sts on the top row, in orange - where the yarn isn't settled.  Everywhere else the yarn has settled into place, although not secured.\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the RS, but unblocked, no ends buried, right off the needles. Thumb sts are on a piece of yarn, waiting to be picked up to knit the thumb. Notice the really loose sts on the top row, in orange &#8211; where the yarn isn&#8217;t settled. Everywhere else the yarn has settled into place, although not secured.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" style=\"width: 174px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1521\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1747-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"Here is the mitt seen from the wrong side.  This is what happens when you don't do any clean-up as you go.  Actually, I've seen worse!  It will only take about 10 minutes to get the ends buried.  Once the mitt is blocked, it will look terrific!\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is the mitt seen from the wrong side. This is what happens when you don&#8217;t do any clean-up as you go. Actually, I&#8217;ve seen worse! It will only take about 10 minutes to get the ends buried. Once the mitt is blocked, it will look terrific!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1517\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1517\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_1285-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"I increased for the thumb gusset every RS row until I had 9 thumb sts, then worked straight until the gusset was deep enough.  There isn't a right or wrong way to knit a thumb gusset, really.  Try different ways to increase, and see what happens!\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I increased for the thumb gusset every RS row until I had 9 thumb sts, then worked straight until the gusset was deep enough. There isn&#8217;t a right or wrong way to knit a thumb gusset, really. Try different ways to increase, and see what happens!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens to everyone, even me.\u00a0 Those of you who think that I escape the Cat spit stage because I am magic, or something&#8230;no.\u00a0 Not true. To prove it, here is the Craftsy plaid mitt that I knit last night. I didn&#8217;t do any tidying as I went, this is right off the needles, and [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-blog","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}