{"id":3544,"date":"2017-03-06T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2017-03-06T16:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:46:47","slug":"finished-is-better-than-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Finished is better than perfect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #b00707;\">FAR<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> from perfect, the socks<\/span> are <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/finished-pair-socks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/finished-pair-socks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/span>FINALLY finished!!\u00a0 Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p>I found knitting the second sock more relaxed and easier than the first and can find only 1 visible mistake (which I didn&#8217;t notice until the sock was finished).\u00a0 It took nearly as long (a week) to knit the second but I devoted less attention to it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done other things besides knitting since starting it.<\/p>\n<p>My next challenge is trying to convince myself to walk away from wool and needles to concentrate on shirt making.\u00a0 There is already a dress shirt cut out and ready to sew.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, my clothes washer died.\u00a0 Naturally, it was filled with water, soap and dirty clothes when it quit so I&#8217;ve spent the past 2 days hand washing jeans and other soppy, heavy clothes.\u00a0 Thankfully, nothing was extremely soiled. Sadly, I don&#8217;t have a clothesline so the dryer has worked extra hard drying things that are only wrung out.\u00a0 DS is already on the lookout for a replacement washer.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I was able to save a little money last month because the bank account will be taking a hit.\u00a0 For the price of appliances these days, it&#8217;s ashamed they don&#8217;t last longer.<\/p>\n<p>Hope your week is joyous (without appliance surprises)!<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though FAR from perfect, the socks are FINALLY finished!!\u00a0 Hallelujah! I found knitting the second sock more relaxed and easier than the first and can find only 1 visible mistake (which I didn&#8217;t notice until the sock was finished).\u00a0 It took nearly as long (a week) to knit the second but I devoted less attention<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3544\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}