{"id":695,"date":"2007-07-16T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=695"},"modified":"2007-07-16T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T10:40:08","slug":"elbac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Elbac!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Elbac is dry, ends woven in, and modeled.<br \/>\nThe scarf.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2622.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2622.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_2622-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter06\/PATTelbac.html\">Elbac<\/a> from Knitty, Winter 2006.<br \/>\nYarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in Navy, 3 skeins.<br \/>\nNeedles: 5mm<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2623.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2623.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_2623-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a ingenious design, using ribbed cables, so that the scarf is reversible. The pattern itself is pretty easily memorised, although I&#8217;m sure that in one or two places I added too many rows between the cable rows.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2624.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2624.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_2624-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI love the ends!<br \/>\nCasting off was a little stressful though, as I was pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/001256.html\">I was going to run out of yarn<\/a>. Not being able to calculate easily how much yarn I needed for each row made casting off an experience!<br \/>\nThe finished scarf is 150cm (60&#8243;) long. I would have liked it a little longer, but Em&#8217;s happy with it. The pattern calls for 64 pattern repeats in the middle, but I only managed 36 repeats.<br \/>\nModeled on the recipient.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2628.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2628.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_2628-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nOops! Wrong pic.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2625.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_2625.html','popup','width=600,height=800,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_2625-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nShe looks pretty happy with it, doesn&#8217;t she? School went back today, and I&#8217;m informed that all her friends are jealous, and want one just like it.<br \/>\nI hope their mothers can knit!<br \/>\nAnd guess what? I got my Ravelry!! Hip hooray! Feel free to add me &#8211; my username is RandomKnits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Elbac is dry, ends woven in, and modeled. The scarf. Pattern: Elbac from Knitty, Winter 2006. Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in Navy, 3 skeins. Needles: 5mm It&#8217;s a ingenious design, using ribbed cables, so that the scarf is reversible. The pattern itself is pretty easily memorised, although I&#8217;m sure that in one or [&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-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}