{"id":1108,"date":"2013-05-21T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-05-21T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:23:07","slug":"new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"New Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ding, ding, ding, we have a wiener! <a href=\"http:\/\/roominating.com\/\">Kylie<\/a> guessed it correctly, my new project is a Kim Hargreaves design. (It wasn&#8217;t that much of a stretch really, was it?)<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/image_medium2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/image_medium2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/image_medium2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m knitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/arielle\">Arielle<\/a>. I know, I&#8217;m a lunatic. The weather has finally started to turn cold after an extended Summer and I&#8217;m knitting a summer top.<br \/>\nLunatic.<br \/>\nIn the last post I mentioned that I&#8217;d matched up my stash (well, most of it) to patterns and sorted through my Ravelry queue. So, when I cast off Water and Stone, I got David to pick a number between 1 and 46, and the number he picked was the item I cast on. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m knitting a summer top just as the weather starts to turn.<br \/>\nThe yarn I&#8217;m using is a backroom bargain from Bendigo Woollen Mills. It&#8217;s a 4ply 30\/70 Wool\/Cotton blend that I picked up when David and I visited Bendigo nearly two years ago. That&#8217;s my other reasoning for the new matchy-matchy system. I find the stuff I buy and stick in the stash sometimes never sees the light of day again. I&#8217;m hoping this way, it&#8217;ll all have it&#8217;s day on the needles!<br \/>\nBut my head may have been turned by something new (already!)<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/IMG_3680.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/IMG_3680.html','popup','width=600,height=800,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\/IMG_3680-thumb.JPG\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI got a little Rowan delivery, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/cucumberpatch.co.uk\/\">Cucumberpatch<\/a> in the UK. It&#8217;s such a pity that the Rowan brand is so badly mishandled in Australia. The Rowan Studio books from Cucumberpatch cost me $9.50. RRP in Australia is ~$27. Ridiculous.<br \/>\nBut I now have my grabby little hands on a skein of the new sock yarn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitrowan.com\/yarns\/fine-art\">Fine Art<\/a> in Raven, and a couple of balls of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitrowan.com\/yarns\/softknit-cotton\">Softknit cotton<\/a>.  The softknit cotton is nice &#8211; it&#8217;s a chainette construction and feels quite squishy in the skein. It may hit the needles sooner rather than later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding, ding, ding, we have a wiener! Kylie guessed it correctly, my new project is a Kim Hargreaves design. (It wasn&#8217;t that much of a stretch really, was it?) I&#8217;m knitting Arielle. I know, I&#8217;m a lunatic. The weather has finally started to turn cold after an extended Summer and I&#8217;m knitting a summer top. 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