{"id":165,"date":"2004-08-07T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=165"},"modified":"2004-08-07T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T13:21:10","slug":"to-save-myself-from-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"To save myself from the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To save myself from the monotony of sewing little blue discs to a lot of blue fabric, I decided to cast on a lace beanie for Em from a pattern I got off the internet. The pattern claimed to use Patons Beehive Baby yarn. I bought a lovely pale pink 4ply merino wool from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.styk.com.au\/\">STYK<\/a> which is a similar gauge to Beehive Baby. I bought the yarn and found the pattern months ago.<br \/>\nSo tonight I cast on (no swatch, yes I know, but I&#8217;m not in the mood to put up with my gauge inadequacies) The pattern called for 97 stitches. I cast on, and realised immediately that something was very wrong. This yarn knits at 30sts\/10cm on 3.25mm needles. The pattern calls for 20sts\/10cm on 3.25mm needles.<br \/>\nAnd of course, I can&#8217;t find the site I originally got the pattern from. I googled Beehive Baby yarn, and it definitely calls for 32sts\/4&#8243;, so I&#8217;m not quite sure where the gauge of 20sts\/4&#8243; comes from.<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;ll go back to sequins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To save myself from the monotony of sewing little blue discs to a lot of blue fabric, I decided to cast on a lace beanie for Em from a pattern I got off the internet. The pattern claimed to use Patons Beehive Baby yarn. I bought a lovely pale pink 4ply merino wool from STYK [&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-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}