{"id":945,"date":"2009-08-16T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T12:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T12:27:25","slug":"poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Poppy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery knitting in the last post?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/poppy-6\">Poppy<\/a>!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/160809%20003.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/160809%20003.html','popup','width=800,height=600,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\/160809%20003-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnother of <a href=\"http:\/\/ysolda.com\/wordpress\/\">Ysolda<\/a>&#8216;s clever little toys, she&#8217;s occupied a great deal of my knitting time this week. She&#8217;s sadly undressed as yet, so Em is protecting her modesty.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had another background project going, which has put me in violation of my 3 project rule. But in the July school holidays I had some medical appointments and a bunch of things that required san easy-to-pick-up-and-put-down project, and at the time I didn&#8217;t have one on the needles.<br \/>\nSo I started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shibuiknits.com\/Patterns\/Pattern.php?Pattern=27\">Swirl Scarf<\/a>. In the interests of full disclosure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyns-shadesofgrey.blogspot.com\/\">LynS<\/a> had some Shibui Silk Cloud at Knit Camp, back in April, and I fell in deep yarn lust immediately. I&#8217;d tried to fight it, but eventually I gave in and ordered just one skein from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopyewe.com\/\">The Loopy Ewe<\/a>, which is all you need for the scarf.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/160809%20006.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/160809%20006.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\/160809%20006-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe problem is that it isn&#8217;t quite the quick knit I was expecting! I now have a ridiculous number of stitches on the needles, and each row is taking forever. The upside is that I only have 3 more rows to go, and I&#8217;ll have a scrummy soft pink cloud of Fairy Floss to wear around my neck.<br \/>\nAnd another project I haven&#8217;t mentioned in a while is the Sock Yarn Blankie.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/140809%20024.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/140809%20024.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\/140809%20024-thumb.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s seen some knit action, but there&#8217;s more to come, boosted by this little piece of yumminess that arrived this week.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/140809%20002.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/140809%20002.html','popup','width=800,height=600,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\/140809%20002-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a sock yarn sampler from <a href=\"http:\/\/knitabulous.blogspot.com\/\">Ailsa<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5970681\">Knitabulous<\/a>!<br \/>\n10 balls of sock yarn, each 10g, dyed in 5 yummy colours. And looking like a box of delicious little fat free cupcakes.<br \/>\nNope, that stash ain&#8217;t goin&#8217; nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery knitting in the last post? It&#8217;s Poppy! Another of Ysolda&#8216;s clever little toys, she&#8217;s occupied a great deal of my knitting time this week. She&#8217;s sadly undressed as yet, so Em is protecting her modesty. I&#8217;ve had another background project going, which has put me in violation of my 3 project rule. But [&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-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}