{"id":258,"date":"2006-12-16T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2006-12-16T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T14:26:11","slug":"how-it-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"How it started"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a cat who's always cold and in search of a warm blanket, so I decided to crochet him a little afghan. The only thing I had ever crocheted (or knitted) was a very ugly black scarf for my husband many years earlier. I remember it took a long time (a few weeks) and the end of the scarf was much narrower than the beginning. I can't remember my husband ever wearing it–and I have no idea where it ended up. Yard sale? Goodwill?<\/p>\n

So the bug bit me again, and I went to Michael's and bought two skeins of Lion Homespun yarn plus a crochet hook. The next day, after making too many mistakes to mention, I decided I should get a bigger crochet hook so I bought one of those monster plastic ones. The next day, after many more mistakes, I decided to knit instead. If you've ever used Homespun yarn, you know it has a bumpy texture that makes it difficult to find stitches. It only took me three hours with the knitting needles to decide I just wasn't cut out for knitting.<\/p>\n

What to do? What to do? I had a chilly kitty and two skeins of yarn. I went online and started searching for other ways to knit or crochet. I knew there was something called a Knifty Knitter<\/a> out there–sold as four plastic wheels with pegs on them–so I took a plunge, spent $11 at Walmart, and in two days I had finished the afghan.<\/p>\n

I used the yellow loom cast on 40 stitches, and knitted two flat panels using the e-wrap. I started with the green color and mid-way swapped to the cream color. Then I knitted a border with a strand of each color, and I sewed the whole thing together.<\/p>\n

It's ugly, isn't it? But my cat likes it. And my cat is cute.<\/p>\n

Ugly afghan or not, I have been bitten by the knitting loom bug, and for Christmas I've asked for yarn and someof the longer KK looms. I plan on making: hats, mittens, slippers, etc. Suddenly, I can't wait for Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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