{"id":1058,"date":"2011-07-08T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2011-07-08T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:19:18","slug":"blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I promised another finished project for this post, and it’s a super cute one! There are not an awful lot of babies around me. My sister recently had a new baby, and he’s lovely, but he has a very prolific grandma in addition to me, so there’s a limited amount of knitting opportunity there.
\nLuckily, I work in a shop that lets me, in fact encourages<\/em> me to knit samples. Because I bought a very cute book a while back, and I’ve been itching to knit something from it. It’s Rowan Miniature Classics<\/a>, and it’s full of adorable knits for little people by Martin Storey.
\nThe first pattern I selected was Blossom<\/a>, a little bolero.
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\nTold you it was cute!
\nPattern: Blossom by Martin Storey, from Rowan Miniature Classics.
\nYarn: Rowan Pure Wool 4 ply in “Framboise”
\nNeedles: 2.25mm.
\nTrim: Liberty Tana Lawn bias binding.
\nMods: Only a couple. The pattern was supposed to be knit in Fine Milk Cotton and I subbed the Pure Wool 4ply. It was supposed to have a little lace trim, but the Liberty bias looked so nice I couldn’t resist!
\nA great knit, and a great result. Keeping track of armhole decreases and the front neck decreases sometimes got a little confusing.
\nThe flower? A nightmare.
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\nBut worth it! It’s fiddly, each petal is knit separately from all the others, and they curl and look like crap. A really vigorous wet blocking fixed it nicely, though!
\nI hand sewed the bias in place, I was worried that using the machine might stretch the knitting out of shape.
\nI celebrated by casting on something else out of the book.
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\nHowever, we’re off on a road trip tomorrow, so it’s been temporarily abandoned, along with Fancy and Smoulder.
\nI need me some nice, simple, lush car knitting. So I’m casting on for Kim Hargreaves’ Edie<\/a> in Kid Classic. Yum. (Remember the days of no more than 3 projects at a time, and only 1 garment?)
\nIn any case, Em is off on a cruise to the Pacific Islands with her girlfriends (when did that happen? Isn’t she still only 10 or so?) and so David and I are off to Victoria, alone(!) for a week.
\nTwinkie is going to the vet<\/strike> bunny spa while we’re away, but she doesn’t know yet. She actually let me pick her up and have a cuddle the other day.
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\nDoesn’t happen very often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I promised another finished project for this post, and it’s a super cute one! There are not an awful lot of babies around me. My sister recently had a new baby, and he’s lovely, but he has a very prolific grandma in addition to me, so there’s a limited amount of knitting opportunity there. Luckily, […]<\/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-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","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=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}