{"id":576,"date":"2008-10-21T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=576"},"modified":"2008-10-20T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T00:55:27","slug":"a-new-yarn-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"A new yarn love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday evening I hit Purlescence Yarns<\/a> for Late Night Knits.\u00a0 A large group of us sat around knitting and watching Bell, Book, and Candle.\u00a0 There were cupcakes because Purlescence was celebrating their second birthday.\u00a0 There was also a small yarn sale — Rowan yarns were 25% off for a few hours.\u00a0 Normally, I would say that I don’t need any new yarn, but there was one Rowan yarn I was interested in — the new British breeds line.\u00a0 Knitter’s Review had done a review<\/a> of it recently, and it sounds quite nice.\u00a0 I’m always interested in trying different breeds of sheep and thought it kind of cool that Rowan had decided to focus on a few specific British breeds.<\/p>\n

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I was completely sold when I plucked a ball of the BFL off the shelf.\u00a0 Not only was it nice and soft, but it smelled slightly of sheep. I bought one ball thinking to make a quick hat (it’s a bulky yarn, with the label stating 13 sts = 10 cm). When I got home, I wound it into a ball by hand because it just felt so nice. Then, I started scanning Ravelry for a pattern. I settled on Gretel<\/a>. I played around with a gauge swatch going through size 7, 8, 9 and 10 needles. The pattern calls for 4.5 sts\/inch in stockinette stitch and 4 sts\/in in k2p2 rib. I got about 4.5 sts\/inch with the 10s, but I’m waffling on that because the patterns seems to be for a 24″ hat. I have a smallish head (21″), and don’t want the hat to come out too big. I’m thinking I’ll knit it on 9s, which, of course, means I have to buy a new set of needles because I don’t have any 16″ long 9s. *sigh* I don’t care though because it’s going to be a beautiful hat to wear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday evening I hit Purlescence Yarns for Late Night Knits.\u00a0 A large group of us sat around knitting and watching Bell, Book, and Candle.\u00a0 There were cupcakes because Purlescence was celebrating their second birthday.\u00a0 There was also a small yarn … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[70,213,174,25,14,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}