{"id":1043,"date":"2011-02-27T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2011-02-27T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T10:00:03","slug":"hats-and-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Hats and socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I think these two items may well be the only things I’ve started and finished since I started work, but hey, it’s something, right?
\nA while back, my very good friend Jill sent me a bundle of magazines, including Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2010<\/a>. Immediately, the Bohus-Inspired Hat by Mary Keenan<\/a> caught my eye. Then I started work, and we stocked Felted Tweed, exactly the yarn called for in the pattern. Meant! to! be!
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\nHowever, it’s been dubbed the Bogus hat, as that’s what the spell check keeps correcting it to.
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Bohus-Inspired Hat<\/a> by Mary Keenan from Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts, 2010.
\nSize: Large +
\nYarn: Rowan Felted Tweed from Calico & Ivy Balmain<\/a>, Main colour: Avocado, Contrast colours: Maritime and Camel. (1 ball of the main, scraps of the contrasts)
\nNeedles: 2.75mm & 3.75mm
\nIt suits him so well, and he likes it, too.
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\nDavid has a lot of hair, so I usually make the hats larger than usual. He also likes hats to cover his ears. So I made the Large size, but it still looked a little short. I was going to do an additional repeat of the colourwork, but in the end I just did a little more stocking stitch before I started the shaping. The pattern says you’ll need two balls of the main colour for the large size, but I only used one, with a little left over.
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\nNow he just needs to wait for the weather to cool down!
\nAnd I finally finished the Shur’tugal socks for the SSSSSSSSS06 (or something) KAL. I can’t say I loved these socks. In fact, fairly early on I dubbed them the Shitugal socks. They weren’t hard, or anything like that, I just didn’t enjoy knitting them. I’d started them in Madeline Tosh Sock in “Clematis”, but the pattern was obscured, so I started over in the Wollmeise Vamp.
\nAnd I’m very glad I did!
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\nI am pleased with the end result, so I’m glad I stuck it out.
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Shur’tugal socks by Alice Yu<\/a> (free Ravelry downlaod)
\nSize: Large
\nYarn: Wollmeise 80\/20 Twin in Vamp<\/a>
\nNeedles: 2.5 and 2mm DPNS
\nMods: The only mods I made were that I used 2.5mm needles on the legs and 2mm needles on the feet to accommodate my cankles. And it worked beautifully!
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\nBoth jobs are going beautifully, although they’re taking up a lot more of my time than I was expecting! Calico and Ivy is such a lovely place to work. I’m constantly inspired by all the beautiful things, but this week was especially wonderful.
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\nAll the new Liberty Tana Lawn arrived. 100 bolts of the new Seasonals. It brings our range to something like 200 different prints in the Liberty range. If I could, I’d bring it all home!
\nSoon, we’ll be looking at the Rowan yarn stocks for Winter. Which Rowan yarns would you like to see stocked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I think these two items may well be the only things I’ve started and finished since I started work, but hey, it’s something, right? A while back, my very good friend Jill sent me a bundle of magazines, including Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2010. Immediately, the Bohus-Inspired Hat by Mary Keenan caught my eye. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}