{"id":622,"date":"2008-12-04T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2008-12-04T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T14:29:52","slug":"stashbusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"stashbusting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got rid of a little stash yarn in the last couple of weeks —<\/p>\n

This cap was the Queensland Collection Kathmandu merino-silk-cashmere DK yarn I got at Fabric Place the first time we stopped there after they announced that they were going out of business. It was 132 sts on size 7 circs, all K2P2 until the decreases, and came out a little loose but very light and comfortable.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This scarf is 35 stitches, mistake rib pattern, on homemade 3\/16″ wooden needles, in alpaca yarn that I got from the farmer<\/a> at the Denmark sheepfest this past spring. I started it for airplane knitting on the way to Salt Lake ten days before Thanksgiving. It may turn into a UFO, or maybe I’ll keep going on it. It feels good, anyway. Yes, that’s a photo of the alpacas themselves on the ball band.
\n<\/p>\n

This is the start of another watch cap which is finished by now (as of Dec. 2, to be exact.) The color is a little washed out by the flash; it’s really a much richer range of greens and browns. The yarn came from the Maine Fiber Frolic, but I don’t know who the vendor was. I had exactly this project, a camouflage-color watch cap, in mind when I got the yarn. It’s 112 sts on the same size 7 circ needle (which, incidently, originally belonged to my late mother-in-law) as the cap in the first picture above. The yarn is heavier than that yarn, so the cap is firmer and warmer than the other as well as fitting tighter. But I was afraid of running out of yarn and started to decrease about four rounds sooner than I wish I had. There’s enough more yarn that I could rip it back and add a few rounds — maybe, but maybe I’ll settle for it like this.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got rid of a little stash yarn in the last couple of weeks — This cap was the Queensland Collection Kathmandu merino-silk-cashmere DK yarn I got at Fabric Place the first time we stopped there after they announced that they were going out of business. It was 132 sts on size 7 circs, all … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “stashbusting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}