{"id":127,"date":"2010-01-01T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/happy-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:15:12","slug":"happy-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/happy-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2010!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best wishes, from Grand Manan.<\/p>\n<p>And, by request &#8212; socks in the window:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px;\" alt=\"socks window\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2010\/Happy2010\/IMG_3709-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those are, in fact, new socks (old feet).&nbsp; There&#8217;ve been a few end-of-year Finished Objects here at KnitBot central, and they are duly posted up on in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/KnitBotYarnProjectGallery.html\">KnitBot Yarn Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, for fun &#8212; here is the year in review (all objects finished in 2009 &#8212; some were certainly started earlier).<\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; width: 500px;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;\"><big style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"><\/big><big><\/big><big>Knitbot&#8217;s 2009 FOs<\/big>      <\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlackberryCircularShawl\/BlackberryCircularShawl.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blackberry Shawl\" title=\"Blackberry Shawl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlackberryCircularShawl\/IMG_3618-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a>      <\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-SummerDiamonds\/SummerDiamonds.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Summer Diamonds Top\" title=\"Summer Diamonds Top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-SummerDiamonds\/IMG_3590-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlueDiamonds\/BlueDiamondSocks.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blue Diamond Socks\" title=\"Blue Diamond Socks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlueDiamonds\/IMG_1136-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" \/><\/a>      <\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-Petra-of-Many-Colours\/Petra-of-Many-Colours.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Petra of Many Colours\" title=\"Petra of Many Colours\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-Petra-of-Many-Colours\/IMG_3075-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-CrochetStole\/CrochetStole.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blue Crochet Stole\" alt=\"Blue Crochet Stole\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-CrochetStole\/IMG_3569-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 155px;\" \/><\/a>      <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-RainbowBabyBlanket\/RainbowBabyBlanket.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rainbow Baby Blanket\" title=\"Rainbow Baby Blanket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-RainbowBabyBlanket\/IMG_2923-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlackJacket\/BlackJacket.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blue Melody Socks\" title=\"Blue Melody Socks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlueMelodySocks\/IMG_3648-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-GreyMouseScarf\/GreyMouseScarf.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grey Mouse Scarf\" title=\"Grey Mouse Scarf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-GreyMouseScarf\/IMG_3579-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlackJacket\/BlackJacket.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black Jacket\" title=\"Black Jacket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-BlackJacket\/IMG_2965-cropped-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 173px; height: 150px;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-TripleLTweed-Sweater\/TripleLTweed-Sweater.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Triple L Tweed Sweater\" title=\"Triple L Tweed Sweater\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-TripleLTweed-Sweater\/TripleL-BackYoke-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 123px;\" \/><\/a>      <\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-VeryPinkSocks\/VeryPinkSocks.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Very Pink Socks\" title=\"Very Pink Socks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2009-VeryPinkSocks\/IMG_1362-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" \/><\/a>      <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In that, you can see that there were 7 travel projects (i.e., projects that could be worked on while in transit and\/or in meetings).&nbsp; That&#8217;s not too surprising, given the type of year it was&#8230;&nbsp; It&#8217;s a little surprising to me that I managed to finish 4 non-travel projects in the year &#8212; the sweaters\/top.&nbsp; Three of them were pretty easy knits &#8212; the diamond modular top, the diagonal (Petra) sweater, and the black jacket.&nbsp; The Triple L Tweed sweater was the really big project for the year &#8212; in December 2008, I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/learning\/\">swatching with the yarn t<\/a>o get some ideas.&nbsp; The rest of the year was about working out a plan for the whole sweater, and then constructing the various bits of it.&nbsp; I might go as far as to say I think it&#8217;s my most successful sweater design yet (not that there have been many&#8230;).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And, it&#8217;s a new year.&nbsp; Not that I&#8217;m formulating any formal resolutions here, but let&#8217;s just say it would be good to see as many projects, fewer of them travel projects, this time next year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=033becbc-0f3f-8142-b363-7a02b686aa5e\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best wishes, from Grand Manan. And, by request &#8212; socks in the window: Those are, in fact, new socks (old feet).&nbsp; There&#8217;ve been a few end-of-year Finished Objects here at KnitBot central, and they are duly posted up on in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/01\/happy-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}