{"id":125,"date":"2004-06-27T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2004-06-27T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T12:32:51","slug":"so-on-the-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"So, on the way home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, on the way home today, after tracking down an elusive mini Care Bear, we stopped at a craft store that isn&#8217;t available closer to home. We browsed, I didn&#8217;t see anything that I liked, But Em was having fits of ecstasy of this new novelty stuff she&#8217;d found.<br \/>\nNow, she has a Feathers scarf &#8211; it was what got me back into knitting. All the dancing mums were knitting with feathers, and Emily *had* to have a feathers scarf. So I knitted her one, but I held it together with a DK weight acrylic. (And a disgusting, plasticy one at that!) It was knit in stockinette, so it rolls, it feels stiff, and is generally blah. So she has a novelty scarf, but isn&#8217;t overly happy with it. And anyone who is anyone at school is wearing novelty scarves! (Oh to be 11 again!)<br \/>\nSo this is what she fell in love with.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sparkleball.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/sparkleball.JPG\" width=\"171\" height=\"242\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an interesting texture, I guess. It&#8217;s 100% polyamide, on a very fine strand, with soft plasticy sparkly bits coming off and the occasional tuft of something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sparklestrand.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/sparklestrand.JPG\" width=\"254\" height=\"192\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSo I cast on her scarf, 25 stitches on 6mm needles, and did a few rows. I was surprised at how much I like the look of the knitted product, and it&#8217;s softer than I expected it to be. I think it&#8217;s harder to knit with these novelty yarns than wool.  Am I the only one? So I knit a few rows of this, then go back to Everyday for a bit. Of course, she just wants to know when it will be finished.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sparklescarf.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/sparklescarf.JPG\" width=\"358\" height=\"259\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nCan you tell from the picture where else we managed to go today? \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nmmmmmmm&#8230; Krispy Kreme&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, on the way home today, after tracking down an elusive mini Care Bear, we stopped at a craft store that isn&#8217;t available closer to home. We browsed, I didn&#8217;t see anything that I liked, But Em was having fits of ecstasy of this new novelty stuff she&#8217;d found. Now, she has a Feathers scarf [&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-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}