{"id":55,"date":"2004-04-15T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=55"},"modified":"2004-04-15T22:06:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T12:06:28","slug":"mail-day-my-order-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Mail Day!! My order from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mail Day!!<br \/>\nMy order from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadbearfiberarts.com\/\">Threadbear<\/a> arrived \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"threadbear order.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/threadbear order.JPG\" width=\"392\" height=\"278\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nPlassard pattern books 32 and 36 and 2 balls of papyrus, which I&#8217;m going to use to make this for Em<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"papyrus top.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/papyrus top.JPG\" width=\"330\" height=\"236\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nI liked this top alot. Mind you, we&#8217;re heading into winter here, so she might not get much wear out of it &#8211; hopefully it will still fit next summer. I think it&#8217;ll knit up very quickly, but I was <b>most<\/b> disappointed to discover that it has a crochet border. I detest crochet, can&#8217;t follow a crochet pattern, and don&#8217;t know a single crochet from a double crochet. Guess I&#8217;d better figure it out quick, huh?<br \/>\nAlot of the stuff I liked from the current Vogue and FCEK magazines have crochet edgings, and they just put me off, I&#8217;m afraid.<br \/>\nAnyway, the Papyrus is most unusual. It&#8217;s kind of papery, kind of fabricy. I think it&#8217;s very similar in texture to those paperish hospital gowns. It&#8217;ll be very interesting to knit!<br \/>\nI also got my new ball winder.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"woolwinder.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/woolwinder.JPG\" width=\"331\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nI immediately wound a skien of Cascade 220, and it was a pleasure!<br \/>\nAnd yesterday, I received a set of Crystal Palace size 0 DPNS, ordered from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knithappens.net\/\">Knit Happens<\/a> I immediately cast on a sock for my DH, David.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David's socks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/davidssocks.JPG\" \/><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t get any further than the cast on though \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThe yarn that I&#8217;m using in that picture is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elann.com\">Elann.com<\/a> Sock It To Me Colori in shade 40 Highland Heather.<br \/>\nI got more of my Cleckheaton Sweater done, I&#8217;m up to the neck shaping on the front, pics of that tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mail Day!! My order from Threadbear arrived \ud83d\ude42 Plassard pattern books 32 and 36 and 2 balls of papyrus, which I&#8217;m going to use to make this for Em I liked this top alot. Mind you, we&#8217;re heading into winter here, so she might not get much wear out of it &#8211; hopefully it will [&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-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}