{"id":195,"date":"2005-05-23T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/195"},"modified":"2005-05-23T09:52:52","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T15:52:52","slug":"knitting-retreat-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/195","title":{"rendered":"Knitting retreat wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really didn’t take a lot of photos this weekend. It just wasn’t that kind of ‘do. The six pictures I did take, referencing mostly the incredible Bloody Mary concoctions, can be found myah<\/a>. We knit a lot, we talked a lot. We learned how to make polymer clay buttons\/toggles\/whatsits, and I learned just how much fun it is to run clay through a pasta maker. I could do that all day.<\/p>\n

We also made beaded stitch holders – mine is awesome and orange. I have a bunch of bead stuff at home, so I might just use it up by making stitch holders.<\/p>\n

Non knitting events included watching half of Breakfast at Tiffany’s<\/a>, America’s Sweethearts<\/a>, and Party Girl<\/a>. The first two movies were chosen because they supposedly had knitting in them. Breakfast at Tiffany’s crapped out halfway through, so we’ll never know, and I watched the whole goddamn multiple-star vehicle that is America’s Sweethearts and missed the knitting scene. (I was knitting.) Party Girl was the third movie shown because I just got it from Amazon on Thursday, and really really wanted to watch it.<\/p>\n

After spending quality time with the owner (Leslie) of Crazy Girl Yarn Shop<\/a>, I’m determined more than ever to some day run a knitting store. You don’t have to be a business person to have a successful venture. If people enjoy themselves, the store will be successful.<\/p>\n

This is exactly why I don’t understand how the Knitting Shoppe in Iowa City is still going. Anyway, I’m totally inspired, and now am scheming a way to make library science apply to the organization of yarn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really didn’t take a lot of photos this weekend. It just wasn’t that kind of ‘do. The six pictures I did take, referencing mostly the incredible Bloody Mary concoctions, can be found myah. We knit a lot, we talked a lot. We learned how to make polymer clay buttons\/toggles\/whatsits, and I learned just how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit-or-get-off-the-pot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}