{"id":215,"date":"2009-02-13T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:45","slug":"i-have-some-good-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"I have some good contacts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a really good week, networking-wise.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Original&#8217; in the blog name refers to my business, Original Production. I&#8217;m diving back into serious networking, after being out of commission most of December and a big chunk of January (travel, and a nasty bug it took freakin&#8217; forever to get over). Believe me, in a small business that depends on referrals there&#8217;s nothing like not being around for a while to bring things to a screeching halt. So I&#8217;m getting it geared back up, as quick as I can.<\/p>\n<p>I met a fellow copywriter at Net-Ed yesterday (first time that&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ever<\/span> happened), and I&#8217;m looking to sign him on as a contractor. I visited the Business Success Group on Monday and met a woman who does websites. It looks like she and I are going to work on some interesting things together, too. She has an idea for a video blog that I&#8217;m really excited about being involved in. And I met with an existing client who not only gave me a good-sized check but also more work! So things are looking up on the OP front.<\/p>\n<p>And in the Knot arena (that part of the blog name refers to my knitting habit), after frogging my Stars mittens approximately two hundred times (okay, maybe seven or eight), I put them aside and set out to find a way to actually <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">do<\/span> intarsia in the round, instead of trying, yet again, to just figure something out. When I first started investigating I was surprised at how many experienced knitters simply said it can&#8217;t be done.  I&#8217;m here to tell you otherwise. In fact, I learned two different techniques (<a href=\"http:\/\/explaiknit.typepad.com\/let_me_explaiknit\/2006\/08\/rock_around_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p2designs.com\/pages\/IntarsiaRound.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>), and either will work very well for these mittens. I&#8217;m going to work on the chart tonight, and maybe start on them (again).<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of the Stars, they&#8217;re playing tonight but we won&#8217;t be at the game. We went Wednesday, and in fact have tickets to four games in February (and may be buying more). There are two games next week we&#8217;re looking at&#8230;maybe the mittens will be done by then.<\/p>\n<p>And I just realized that I didn&#8217;t mention the Stars in the name of this blog! I should fix that. There&#8217;s no doubt I&#8217;ll be talking about them here. Often. And enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so tonight it&#8217;s snuggling in with interesting knitting, pasta with parma rosa sauce and keeping up with the game via Twitter. My kind of evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a really good week, networking-wise. The &#8216;Original&#8217; in the blog name refers to my business, Original Production. I&#8217;m diving back into serious networking, after being out of commission most of December and a big chunk of January (travel, and a nasty bug it took freakin&#8217; forever to get over). Believe me, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}