{"id":824,"date":"2008-08-09T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-08-09T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T08:25:11","slug":"elijah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Elijah"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a slow knit week. I place all the blame entirely on The Sims<\/a>. Having not played it in forever, I rediscovered it this week, and all my time went into that big black hole.
\nI did manage a little bit of knitting. I finished Elijah, but he didn’t make my life easy.
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\nI did those ears over and over. They were at various times too high, too far forward, too small. I’m pretty happy with the final result, but not so happy with the eyes.
\nEmily assures me that he is adorable, and I’m fairly sure my ambivalence comes from having spent so much time finishing him up.
\nHere he is, together with Sophie.
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\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Elijah by Ysolda Teague<\/a>
\nYarn: Sublime Cashmere Merino Silk DK<\/a> in Sea Pearl
\nNeedles: 3mm DPNS
\nModifications: Only one small one, I did the ears with 3.5mm needles, because I thought they looked too small. Apart from that, he’s made to the pattern, I didn’t use two full balls of the Sublime, only 62 grams. For Sophie I used about 65 grams.
\nApart from that, I’ve been working on some lace for a while which somehow eluded mention on the blog.
\nIt’s the Magic Carpet Ride scarf by Susan Pandorf<\/a>! I bought mine as a kit from The Woolen Rabbit<\/a>.
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\nThis is definitely a colour that I would not normally choose, but I loved it the minute I saw it. The beads I’m using I got off eBay, and they’re an unusual colour, sort of a burnished gold with rainbow highlights.
\nIt’s a lovely pattern to knit, but it can get complicated in parts, where you’re using a whole bunch of different charts at once!
\nI started the knitting of this at Knit Camp, about six weeks ago, but it’s languished a little since then. I don’t mind a long term project, though. I’m up to the centre part now, which is fairly repetitive, and I think that’s what’s waylaid me – it was much more interesting before! I’m still on the first end, I have about 80 rows to go, then I’ll knit the other side and they need to be grafted down the centre.
\nI’m avoiding thinking about that part! I’m sure you’re all aware of exactly how much I detest grafting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a slow knit week. I place all the blame entirely on The Sims. Having not played it in forever, I rediscovered it this week, and all my time went into that big black hole. I did manage a little bit of knitting. I finished Elijah, but he didn’t make my life easy. I […]<\/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-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}