{"id":612,"date":"2006-12-12T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=612"},"modified":"2006-12-12T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T08:11:52","slug":"612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who offered a ball of Calmer.<br \/>\nA prettily wrapped ball arrived today from a <a href=\"http:\/\/knitavenue.blogspot.com\/\">friend<\/a>.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1356.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1356.html','popup','width=950,height=654,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_1356-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"289\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd look at the colour!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1363.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1363.html','popup','width=950,height=700,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_1363-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"309\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<em>Perfect<\/em> for a pair of ballet slippers! I&#8217;m itching to cast them on, I even raced off to block the Lace Panel Sweater. As soon as it&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m casting on for Twinkletoes. Or maybe earlier. It was 37C here yesterday, sticking hot, and today is cold and grey and drizzly. Bad day for blocking, so the Twinkletoes may hit the needles a little earlier, if I <em>really<\/em> can&#8217;t resist!<br \/>\nThis arrived today as well, and has my fingers itching.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1364.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1364.html','popup','width=950,height=698,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_1364-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"308\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a cashmere scarf kit from Rabbit Tree Farm. I first saw it on <a href=\"http:\/\/thewoolenrabbit.typepad.com\/thewoolenrabbit\/\">Kim&#8217;<\/a>s blog, and she helped me track down the seller, as they don&#8217;t have a website. Wonderful service, with the whole transaction done by email, with just one quick phone call to provide my cc details.<br \/>\nThe yarn is 80% cashmere and 20% silk, and just feels heavenly.<br \/>\nAnd we finally did it.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1365.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1365.html','popup','width=625,height=850,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_1365-thumb.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe tree is finally up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who offered a ball of Calmer. A prettily wrapped ball arrived today from a friend. And look at the colour! Perfect for a pair of ballet slippers! I&#8217;m itching to cast them on, I even raced off to block the Lace Panel Sweater. As soon as it&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m casting on for [&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-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}