{"id":21429,"date":"2025-11-09T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21429"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:41:39","slug":"daily_3904_-_urgent_shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/11\/09\/daily_3904_-_urgent_shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3904 – urgent shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All three<\/s> four of my hobby projects were blocked due to lack of tools or materials.<\/p>\n

The white knit dress: blocked because I ran out of mohair yarn.<\/p>\n

The multicolour sweater (which I haven’t even posted about): blocked because I need a longer 2 mm cable needle.<\/p>\n

The loose pocket: blocked because I need ribbon for the straps.<\/p>\n

The yet-unstarted project of making stitch markers: blocked because I need flat pliers and plastic-coated jewellery wire. I knew I had some kind of jewellery wire in one of the hobby drawers, but it turned out to be not the right kind.<\/p>\n

I found the situation almost stressful. Today’s shopping trip solved the first three (the needles were not photogenic enough to make it into the picture) and I’ve ordered jewellery wire as well.<\/p>\n

The ribbon was a lucky find. I wandered into a fabric shop that I’ve only been to once before, and they had random spools of vintage ribbons on a shelf. This feels much nicer than the shiny polyester stuff that is mostly produced these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All three four of my hobby projects were blocked due to lack of tools or materials. The white knit dress: blocked because I ran out of mohair yarn. The multicolour sweater (which I haven’t even posted about): blocked because I need a longer 2 mm cable needle. The loose pocket: blocked because I need ribbon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21431,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions\/21431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}