{"id":224,"date":"2011-05-24T10:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-05-24T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:26:44","slug":"finished-coraline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Coraline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kitten likes tweedy sweater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So. Almost a month after the self-imposed deadline for Nerd Wars and BSGFPB, I present a finished sweater. \u00a0It’s Coraline (link<\/a>), by Ysolda Teague, in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool (link<\/a>). It fits me perfectly. I love the color. I’m glad I was able to use some reclaimed buttons. It’s sort of itchy.<\/p>\n

That’s the basic summary. In construction news, I knit the 34″ size, since after blocking my swatch grew pretty considerably. Had I blocked my sweater as rigorously as I did my swatch, it likely would have been about 40″ at the bust. Instead, it’s a comfortably snug 36″, and I have decided that I think 3″ negative ease is really my magic number. At least in things that don’t have to close directly over the widest part of my chest.\u00a0I also shortened the sleeves to put them somewhere between bracelet and three-quarter length, and I did an i-cord cast-on rather than the folded hem called for in the pattern to make the sweater a little lighter and the edgings more consistent.<\/p>\n

All told, it only took 4 skeins of yarn to knit, a mere 750 yards or so. Which is pretty crazy and awesomely economical. The sad part is now I have 3 skeins of this stuff left in stash, and have no idea what I could do with it. I stuck it in my Ravelry trade pile. Maybe someone else will give it a good home. It’s a nice yarn, very soft, but there is a lot<\/em> of vegetable matter hiding out in its tweedy little slubs, and those tend to itch a bit during wear. I tried to pull out most of it. I obviously failed.<\/p>\n

But if nothing else, the cat likes it. And though it’s technically spring, the weather has been swinging between temperate and chilly for a couple weeks, and looks to continue that pattern for awhile longer, so I might get to wear it more than one day before the heat of summer makes any extraneous clothing impractical.<\/p>\n

And furthermore, I love Ysolda Teague. She is made of awesome. I can’t wait until my copy of Little Red in the City (link<\/a>) arrives!<\/p>\n

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Curious kitten tastes buttons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So. Almost a month after the self-imposed deadline for Nerd Wars and BSGFPB, I present a finished sweater. \u00a0It’s Coraline (link), by Ysolda Teague, in Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool (link). It fits me perfectly. I love the color. I’m glad I was able to use some reclaimed buttons. It’s sort of itchy. That’s the basic summary. In construction news, I knit the 34″ size, since after blocking my swatch grew.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}