{"id":104,"date":"2009-03-22T00:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T05:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-03-22T00:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T05:33:31","slug":"sports-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Sports Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/3373619627\/\" title=\"sock sees a hockey game by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3621\/3373619627_f59ea6bc3b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"sock sees a hockey game\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I did a little more traveling with a sock (different sock&#8230;the BSG socks are a little complex for a game) and joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheetar.com\/\">Melissa<\/a> and her knit night at a Philadelphia Phantoms game.  (Stick and puck, apparently? Who knew?)<\/p>\n<p>Melissa&#8217;s knitting group (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/philly-burbs-stitch-n-bitch\">Philly Burbs Stitch&#8217;n&#8217;Bitch<\/a>) is awesome.  They had gift bags for everyone:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/3374881040\/\" title=\"Grab bag! by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3559\/3374881040_267ddafb41.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Grab bag!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that awesome?  Two skeins of Berocco (Jewel FX and Plume FX), a skein of Valley Yarns Southwick Southwick, a kiddie hat kit with three colors of Mission Falls 1824 Cotton, courtesy of Supercrafty.com, and a delightful little keychain skein, from (as you can see) Kitty Grrlz.  <\/p>\n<p>But wait!  It doesn&#8217;t stop there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/3374063827\/\" title=\"Prizewinner! by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3187\/3374063827_cce493f681.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Prizewinner!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the grab bags, there was a raffle!  And I won!  Behold my new Namaste Oh Snap! bags, and!  and!  a subscription to Louet!  A year of Louet patterns!  Not bad for one raffle ticket, especially when you consider the proceeds were going to Heifer International.  How much better can it get?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, spending the weekend with Melissa is good for my swag count <i>and<\/i> my posting count.  I think I should be visiting her more often, don&#8217;t you?  (Considering I am currently watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slings-Arrows-Season-Paul-Gross\/dp\/B000FBFYKU\">Slings &#038; Arrows<\/a>, eating whisky cheese, and drinking homebrewed Raspberry Chocolate Port&#8230; yes.  She is lucky I haven&#8217;t moved in, to be honest.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I did a little more traveling with a sock (different sock&#8230;the BSG socks are a little complex for a game) and joined Melissa and her knit night at a Philadelphia Phantoms game. (Stick and puck, apparently? Who knew?) Melissa&#8217;s knitting group (the Philly Burbs Stitch&#8217;n&#8217;Bitch) is awesome. They had gift bags for everyone: Isn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sports Night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}