{"id":785,"date":"2008-04-03T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-04-03T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T01:19:35","slug":"monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so, finally, the Monkey socks are done!
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\nEm’s happy with them.
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Cookie A’s Monkey socks from Knitty Winter 2006<\/a>.
\nYarn: Sterling Silver and Silk by Kraemer Yarns, purchased at Stitch Cafe<\/a> in Valley Village in Los Angeles, and hand dyed by them.
\nNeedles: 2.25mm Pony Pearl DPNS
\nLove the pattern! Super easy to memorise, and fast to work. The socks did take me over a month to do, but I didn’t work on them very much at all. Em picked the yarn while we were in the USA, and I chose the pattern for two reasons, first because it looks nice in variegated yarns, and second because David calls Emily the Wild Monkey, so it seemed appropriate.
\nThe yarn was really, really nice to work with. It’s soft, but seems sturdy, and the silver sparkle is pretty! I’m not sure how it will hold up to washing and wear, but I’ll let you know. I think<\/em> it might be the same yarn that’s available as “Ginger”<\/a> at Live 2 Knit<\/a> in Australia, and if it is, I highly recommend it!
\nAnd now I have a confession to make. While I was in Hawaii, I bought some…
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\nFun Fur. Yes, I bought novelty yarn. And I paid an exorbitant amount of money for it, I have no idea what I was thinking. But I did buy it with a purpose.
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\nIt’s going to be a Hedgehog. I couldn’t resist.
\nDoes buying Fun Fur and actually knitting with it get me kicked out of the Cool Knitters Club?
\nHang on, was I ever in<\/em> the Cool Knitters Club?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so, finally, the Monkey socks are done! Em’s happy with them. Specs: Pattern: Cookie A’s Monkey socks from Knitty Winter 2006. Yarn: Sterling Silver and Silk by Kraemer Yarns, purchased at Stitch Cafe in Valley Village in Los Angeles, and hand dyed by them. Needles: 2.25mm Pony Pearl DPNS Love the pattern! Super easy […]<\/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-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}