{"id":822,"date":"2008-08-02T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-08-02T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:14:06","slug":"a-pair-of-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it didn’t happen in July, but on August 1, I finished the socks I have dubbed “A Pair of Hearts”.
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\nAnd I’m very happy with them!
\nIt is a pattern I came up with myself, and I’ll try to get it written up soon. They’re being modelled by Emily, because they’re a gift for someone, and my feet are too big!
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: My own
\nNeedles: 2mm Crystal Palace DPNS
\nYarn: Patons Australia Patonyle sock yarn. The yarn is so new I can’t even link to it, it’s not on the site yet!
\nA rep from ACS got in touch with me and asked if I’d like some of the yarn to review, and I jumped at the chance. Patonyle has been around for years<\/em>, but was discontinued last year, much to the discontent of Aussie sock knitters.
\nThey heard our cries of outrage, and are now rereleasing it, but this time it will be available in 100g balls instead of the old 50g balls.
\nAnd the verdict? It’s the same old Patonyle! (Is that a hallelujah I hear?) It’s an 80\/20 wool\/nylon blend, and it’s a workhorse yarn in my opinion. I have a pair of Patonyle socks that I dyed up in stripes back in April 2006<\/a>. Those socks have been worn a lot<\/em>. I even wear my hand knit socks outside, without shoes to take out the garbage and hang the washing. They’ve been tossed into the washing machine a thousand times, and even into the dryer a time or ten, and they still look great.
\nIt has great stitch definition.
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\nAnd it stands up to frogging well, too. I started a different design with the yarn, but it wasn’t coming out the way I’d hoped, so I frogged them and started over. The yarn behaved beautifully!
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\nI’m told it will be available in Spotlight stores from September (unlikely at my crappy local, though!), and in LYS early next year, with a RRP of $15 a ball.
\nUnfortunately, the colour range is still the same, too, at least to start with. I’m going to toss these socks into a dye pot and turn them into something pretty, but I have been assured that the colour range is going to be expanded and improved next year.
\nHopefully it will take dye just like it used to, which is another point in it’s favour! There is also a rumour that it will be released in an undyed version! (Is there any bad news about it?!?)
\nTo celebrate finishing the socks, I cast on for something new.
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\nNot socks, but it’s cuuuuute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it didn’t happen in July, but on August 1, I finished the socks I have dubbed “A Pair of Hearts”. And I’m very happy with them! It is a pattern I came up with myself, and I’ll try to get it written up soon. They’re being modelled by Emily, because they’re a gift for […]<\/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-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}