{"id":1066,"date":"2011-10-22T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2011-10-22T22:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:07:52","slug":"finally-plum-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Plum Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plum Frost is done. Has been done for a fortnight, even! Fortuitously, it was done just in time for our last Guild meeting!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/006.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/006.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/006-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFabulous knit, maybe a tiny bit on the big side. I desperately wanted to wear it to Guild, and it was still damp on Friday night. Fortunately it dried in time, although I&#8217;d figured if it was on the damp side, my body heat would dry it in time!<br \/>\nSpecs:<br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/plum-frost-pullover--cardigan\">Plum Frost Pullover and Cardigan<\/a> by Elinor Brown<br \/>\nYarn: Harrisville Designs New England Shetland<br \/>\nNeedles: 2.5 &#038; 3mm Addi&#8217;s. I started on Knitpro\/Knit Picks Harmonies, but one snapped.<br \/>\nMods: I made the body and sleeves a little longer, that&#8217;s it.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/013.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/013.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/013-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nGreat pattern, beautiful yarn. I got mine at Yarn and Fiber Company in New Hampshire. But I wouldn&#8217;t recommend them. I ordered the yarn in July 2010, and didn&#8217;t get the last of the order until November <s>2011<\/s>2010. Contacting them is near on impossible, and getting any kind of response about the status of your order is impossible. Never again.<br \/>\nBut if you can get your hands on the yarn, it&#8217;s well worth it!<br \/>\nIn other knitting news, there&#8217;s very little. I started the smallest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/three-brrr-bears\">Three Brr bears<\/a> from Spud &#038; Chloe.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/037.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/037.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/037-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI got the body done, and the head. Then I decided it just looked weird, so I frogged it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also started a Hitchhiker in Knitabulous fiftyfifty wool\/silk.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/031011%20002.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/031011%20002.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/031011%20002-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe mojo is a no-show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plum Frost is done. Has been done for a fortnight, even! Fortuitously, it was done just in time for our last Guild meeting! Fabulous knit, maybe a tiny bit on the big side. I desperately wanted to wear it to Guild, and it was still damp on Friday night. Fortunately it dried in time, although [&hellip;]<\/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-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","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=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}