{"id":596,"date":"2006-10-25T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T04:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=596"},"modified":"2006-10-25T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T04:42:04","slug":"596","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The knitting is still making boring blogging, I’m afraid.
\nIcarus has only 12 rows to go, and I’m hoping I’ll get it done by the weekend. Spring Blossoms is nearing the end of the sixth repeat, but has been largely abandoned in favour of finishing Icarus.
\nThe sock is halfway down the foot, and progressing nicely.
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\nHaving all this boring blogging material is dangerous.
\nIt makes me want to start things.
\nThe new Jo Sharp book, Knit 2 is out, and I purchased it last week. I think this is probably the best book she’s done yet.
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\nI instantly fell in love with this.
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\nMind you, if I have one major complaint about the Jo Sharp pattern books, it’s that some of the pictures are too artfully posed to see the garment well. Here’s a better picture of the pattern.
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\nLove it, love it, love it.
\nIt calls for Jo Sharp Desert Garden Aran Cotton which is 65% cotton and 35% microfibre, and has a gauge of 18sts and 24 rows on 5mm (US 8) needles.
\nSo I hopped onto eBay and had a look around.
\nThis magically appeared in my mailbox today. (I wonder why my stash isn’t shrinking?)
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\nRowan All Seasons Cotton in “Purr”. I got this fantastic bargan from Jannette’s Rare Yarns<\/a> on eBay. How fantastic a bargain? $US22.50 a bag.
\nBargain!<\/em>
\nTo compare this to Jo Sharps Desert Garden Aran Cotton, the Rowan is 60% cotton, 40% microbfibre (close enough for me) and has a recommended gauge of 16-18 stitches over 23-25 rows on US 7-9 needles.
\nSurely I can make that work.
\nOr maybe the gauge Gods are laughing at me right this minute.
\nOne glaring difference that is a little disconcerting is that the Desert Garden has only 55m (60yds) per 50g ball, and the Rowan has 90m (98yds) per 50g ball.
\nIs it just me, or does that seem like a gigantic difference for an apparently similar yarn?
\nCan 5% microfibre mean that much difference?
\nAnyway, there are many other things I like from this book.
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\nThere’s more, but they’re my favourites.
\nI haven’t swatched yet, in fact, I haven’t even opened the bag of yarn, but how long do you think I can last?
\nI will finish Icarus first, I will. I will.
\nMaybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The knitting is still making boring blogging, I’m afraid. Icarus has only 12 rows to go, and I’m hoping I’ll get it done by the weekend. Spring Blossoms is nearing the end of the sixth repeat, but has been largely abandoned in favour of finishing Icarus. The sock is halfway down the foot, and progressing […]<\/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-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}