{"id":857,"date":"2012-12-30T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-12-30T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T19:04:30","slug":"both-santa-and-the-circus-came-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/both-santa-and-the-circus-came-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Santa and the circus came to town"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well hello there. \u00a0Nice to see you on the other side. I hope you all had a good\u00a0Christmas\u00a0 full of whatever you wished it full of.<\/p>\n

For me I feel like I’m just waking up after a big party, \u00a0feeling hungover but pretty sure I didn’t have anything to drink! \u00a0Boy\u00a0December\u00a0was busy. \u00a0I woke up Boxing Day\u00a0knowing\u00a0that it was my day to do whatever I wanted, my very favourite day of the year\u00a0for<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>just that reason. \u00a0It’s all done. \u00a0All of the running around, thinking up things,\u00a0remembering\u00a0what I’ve thought up, making lists (ugh). \u00a0Really good leftovers in the fridge. \u00a0No expectations to do anything other than settle a bit.<\/p>\n

I successfully resisted the call of the craft this year. \u00a0It’s been a tradition of mine to get very inspired by a craft very close to Christmas, and have it go a little squirrely at the end, spending too much on some exotic supply, trying to get it done, not getting it done, guilt, all that. \u00a0This year I cut a few snowflakes for the windows and that was about it. \u00a0Very simple. \u00a0But in the lazy days after Christmas I did hear the siren call of knitting and went to look in my cupboard of unfinished knitting projects. \u00a0Yes, I have a whole cupboard just for unfinished knitting\u00a0projects\u00a0 and let’s keep moving and hopefully skip over that that’s just the\u00a0unfinished\u00a0knitting<\/em> projects. \u00a0I have more cupboards.<\/p>\n

I dug through and found that I’d actually come very very close to finishing a project last year. A knitted, felted tea cosy. \u00a0The pattern showed a cosy all rounded and quirky and fun. \u00a0I had some wool I wanted to use, some gorgeous gray buffalo wool, and had got a few colours to put with it to perk it up a little. \u00a0Although over the years I’ve taken on a number of knitting projects I’m more of a guerilla knitter and I figured I had this wool and two knitting needles, and a vague idea of how to do it from this pattern although I’d have to change numbers and dimensions all over the place. \u00a0What could go wrong??<\/p>\n

Well a lot went wrong, the most striking being that the cosy worked up large enough to cover my car. \u00a0It was huge and heavy and very tall (all due to my fiddling, no fault of the original design) and apparently all too much for me, and there it sat, almost done, in my aforementioned cupboard.<\/p>\n

I pulled it out and spent a few hours doing the literally last ten or so rows on it and then pulled in all the ends and laughed at how huge it was. \u00a0My youngest wore it as a huge hat that hung down her back. \u00a0There was talk whether we could fit a cat in it.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I threw it as is in the washing machine \u00a0— I’m a guerilla felter too — and it came out still huge, so I threw it in again. \u00a0Better. \u00a0It could use one more wash probably, it’s still very tall and all of the stitches are clearly visible, but it might get too tight around for a tea pot and also my tiny little attention span has moved on.<\/p>\n

Look what I did!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Isn’t it hilarious? \u00a0I crack up every time I look at it. \u00a0Instead of gently rounding up to the top it has a roof. \u00a0It\u00a0looks\u00a0like a big huge circus tent which is extremely appropriate around here. \u00a0Sort of Dr. Seussian. \u00a0Still available as a hat. Probably a little tight for a whole cat.<\/p>\n

The original pattern had\u00a0whimsical\u00a0little spots\u00a0embroidered\u00a0on. \u00a0Not sure if I’ll get there or not. \u00a0I think for a bit this cosy is going to do the same as me, sit and settle.<\/p>\n

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Well hello there. \u00a0Nice to see you on the other side. I hope you all had a good\u00a0Christmas\u00a0 full of whatever you wished it full …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1,39],"tags":[20,94,7,12,23,50,25,33,45,31],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-uncategorized","category-inspiration","tag-arg","tag-christmas","tag-colours","tag-inspirations","tag-just-having-fun","tag-knitting","tag-life","tag-stripes","tag-taking-a-breath","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}