{"id":222,"date":"2004-10-16T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2004-10-16T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T12:26:44","slug":"dhs-sweater-is-done-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"DH&#8217;s sweater is done! Well,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DH&#8217;s sweater is done! Well, the knitting is. I&#8217;ve blocked it, and sewn in one sleeve. Hopefully, I will get it done tonight. Unfortunately, finishing is my least favourite part.<br \/>\nApart from swatching, that is.<br \/>\nI have swatched for Em&#8217;s Lime and Pink sweater. The recommended needle size is 4mm. 3.75mm swatched too small, 4mm Addi Turbos swatched too small. 4mm anodised circ did the job <i>on the swatch.<\/i><br \/>\nSo I cast on my 400 or so stitches, and started the ruffle. I completed the ruffle and did a few rows, measured and realised that it was coming out too big, so I&#8217;m back to 3.75mm needles. My row gauge is off, though (well, duh!)<br \/>\nHere is where I was up to this afternoon.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"limesweaterstarted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/limesweaterstarted.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t a very accurate depiction of the colour, I&#8217;m afraid. I am doing stripes in the lime and hotpink that <a href=\"http:\/\/goddess1.typepad.com\/i_hide_yarn\/\">Bliss<\/a> sent me. \ud83d\ude42 I have since started on the first pink stripe.<br \/>\nI also swatched for Butterfly. What a pain. The recommended needle is 5mm. I got stitch gauge on 4mm needles. My row gauge is short, again.<br \/>\nI detest gauge!<br \/>\nNow I just have to decide what size to make. I don&#8217;t want it to be too big if I lose more weight, but I don&#8217;t want it to be too small, either.<br \/>\nI also think that the sweater in the picture looks to have less ease than is recommended in the pattern. Decisions, decisions!<br \/>\nHave a good weekend all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DH&#8217;s sweater is done! Well, the knitting is. I&#8217;ve blocked it, and sewn in one sleeve. Hopefully, I will get it done tonight. Unfortunately, finishing is my least favourite part. Apart from swatching, that is. I have swatched for Em&#8217;s Lime and Pink sweater. The recommended needle size is 4mm. 3.75mm swatched too small, 4mm [&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-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}