{"id":1070,"date":"2011-12-09T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:07:07","slug":"my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"My Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A finished project! A garment! For Me! (Finally)
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\nLoving it!
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Valentine Cardi<\/a> by Laura Chau for Spud & Chloe<\/a>
\nYarn: Spud & Chloe Fine in Calypso, 4 skeins. I have about 50g left from the fourth skein.
\nNeedles: 3.5mm
\nMods: I made the sleeves a little longer, otherwise it was knit to the pattern.
\nThis one had me worried while I was knitting it. I couldn’t decide whether to knit the smallest or second size, as I fall right smack in between them. I asked on Ravelry, I looked at the finished projects, and I finally decided on the smallest size. I knit the body first, and it looked tiny. When I’d finished it, I was absolutely positive that I was going to have to rip it and start over.
\nSo I decided to block the body before I frogged it and started over.
\nAnd I’m mightily glad I did, because it blocked out to the perfect size! So I did the bands, and left the sleeves until last, becasue I knew I wanted the sleeves longer and wanted to make sure I had enough yarn. Ultimately I had enough yarn to go for full length sleeves if I’d wanted, but I was sick of the sight of it and just wanted it off the needles.
\nSo I’m fickle, sue me!
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\nI wore it to Not Quite high tea last Sunday, and I was very happy with it – except that the elbow length sleeves stretched out around my elbow. The yarn is a silk\/wool blend. Lovely to knit with but it did stretch out a bit when I wore it, and it’ll be interesting to see how it stands up over time.
\nNext up int he Knit Parade?
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\nElspeth<\/a>, in some of my precious Calmer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A finished project! A garment! For Me! (Finally) Loving it! Specs: Pattern: Valentine Cardi by Laura Chau for Spud & Chloe Yarn: Spud & Chloe Fine in Calypso, 4 skeins. I have about 50g left from the fourth skein. Needles: 3.5mm Mods: I made the sleeves a little longer, otherwise it was knit to the […]<\/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-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}