{"id":728,"date":"2007-10-09T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=728"},"modified":"2007-10-09T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T06:08:07","slug":"cover-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Cover Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, finally, the Cabled beanie and Gloves are done.
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\nSpecs:
\nPattern – “Cover Girl” from Family Circle Easy Knits for Kids<\/a> (Originally published in Winter ’99\/’00 issue of FCEK)
\nSize: One size
\nYarn: Recommended yarn is Cleckheaton Country 8ply. I used Cleckheaton Country Silk 8ply, same yarn with the addition of 15% silk. 3 and a half balls.
\nNeedles: Recommended 4mm. I used 3.75mm for the hat, and 3.25mm for the gloves.
\nModifications: Extensive.
\nI modified the hat by reducing the length by one pattern repeat. (8 rows), see this entry<\/a>.
\nI modified the gloves extensively. The pattern is written for knitting flat and seaming. I can’t think of anything worse than seams in gloves. Or seaming gloves! So to start with, I just rewrote the pattern to knit them in the round. The recommended gauge is 22sts\/4″. The pattern has 42 sts across the hand. That’s nearly 8″. Em’s hand is about 6 3\/4″. And my gauge was off, so the glove was something like 9″ around to start with.
\nSo I had to rip out the whole glove and rewrite the whole pattern. Tthe pattern I knit resembles the original, in that it has a cabled cuff and stocking stitch hand. The method of knitting it, and the stitch count is completely different.
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\nI didn’t knit the scarf to finish the set. The kid already has plenty of scarves that she doesn’t wear! She looks pretty happy with the hat and gloves though, doesn’t she?
\nHopefully she’ll wear these ones.
\nThe Slinky Socks and Hanging Garden are still going strong, and I’m (im)patiently waiting for my yarn for the Hemlock Ring Blanket<\/a>.
\nBut right now, this is talking to me.
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\nI’m trying to ignore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, finally, the Cabled beanie and Gloves are done. Specs: Pattern – “Cover Girl” from Family Circle Easy Knits for Kids (Originally published in Winter ’99\/’00 issue of FCEK) Size: One size Yarn: Recommended yarn is Cleckheaton Country 8ply. I used Cleckheaton Country Silk 8ply, same yarn with the addition of 15% silk. 3 and […]<\/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-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}