{"id":587,"date":"2006-10-01T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-10-01T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:39:17","slug":"587","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a day late, but another random blue square.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0569.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0569.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nOr a Saturday Sky. I try to include some treeline to break up the blue!<br \/>\nSpring blossoms to go along with the beautiful weather, anyone?<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0565.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0565.html','popup','width=900,height=676,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\/100_0565-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nShe&#8217;s growing nicely, thankyouverymuch. I&#8217;ve finished two repeats, and she&#8217;s behaving beautifully! I wish I could knit her all day every day. Here she is stretched out a little to show the lace a bit better.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0567.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0567.html','popup','width=900,height=675,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\/100_0567-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nUnfortunately, I can&#8217;t knit her all day every day. Family, housework, rabbit, sleeping, eating, all kinds of unreasonable demands on my time prevent me from doing so.<br \/>\nSo occasionallyI do a row or two on something a little less time consuming.<br \/>\nI finished a Fleece Artist sock<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0570.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0570.html','popup','width=900,height=675,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\/100_0570-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI love this sock yarn. Absolutely love it. It&#8217;s a bit thicker than most sock yarns, and it&#8217;s springy, soft and warm, and <em>cushy<\/em>. Sock heaven.<br \/>\nBut instead of working on sock number two, my fickle heart strayed.<br \/>\nAnd I cast on a scarf.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_05751.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_05751.html','popup','width=900,height=675,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\/100_0575-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in SWTC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soysilk.com\/Yarns\/Karaoke.html\">Karaoke<\/a> in &#8220;Dipity&#8221;. The yarn is nice and soft to touch, but I&#8217;m not sure about the single ply yet. It&#8217;s thick and thin, which really seems to be achieved by overspinning the yarn in some places, and underspinning it in others.<br \/>\nBut I love the way the colour repeats are knitting up in this pattern so far.<br \/>\nThe pattern is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pieknits.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/new_pattern_grape_hyacinth_lac.html\">Grape Hyacinth Lace Scarf<\/a> from pieknits.<br \/>\nI first saw it over on <a href=\"http:\/\/knittingatnumber9.blogspot.com\/\">Gill&#8217;s<\/a> blog, and fell in love with it instantly. Gill knit it up in Silk Garden, and it looks gorgeous.<br \/>\nThe smallest scarf in the pattern can be made with just one ball of Silk Garden. (Or Karaoke).<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see how big it finishes up.<br \/>\nTwinkie is not impressed.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0577.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_0577.html','popup','width=900,height=675,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\/100_0577-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a day late, but another random blue square. Or a Saturday Sky. I try to include some treeline to break up the blue! Spring blossoms to go along with the beautiful weather, anyone? She&#8217;s growing nicely, thankyouverymuch. I&#8217;ve finished two repeats, and she&#8217;s behaving beautifully! I wish I could knit her all day every [&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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}