{"id":907,"date":"2016-02-23T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=907"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:00:42","slug":"finished-object-garter-rib-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Finished Object: Garter Rib Cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image_small.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/image_small.jpeg\" alt=\"image_small\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I realized something in January while I was working on\u00a0<em>Imitation Girl<\/em> in the bitter cold: tucking scarf ends into your jacket can be kind of a pain the butt. I&#8217;ve made other cowl-type objects, and while I love the fact that you just throw them over your head and go, I was less thrilled that they inevitably grew out of shape and thus\u00a0<em>away<\/em> from the very neck they were intended to keep warm.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to try something. I bought two balls of this lovely Lang Mille Colori Baby on a whim last year on the way back from Wine &amp; Yarn Weekend, and I&#8217;d intended to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/reverse-psychology\" target=\"_blank\">Reverse Psychology<\/a> with it. While I still think this pattern turns out a lovely project, the instructions made my brain hurt (and still involved tucking-necessary ends, obviously). So I switched gears. I cast on 184 stitches on a size 4 circular, and knitted plain old garter rib until I&#8217;d gotten through all of the two balls. Then I did a nice stretchy bind-off, and attempted to get it around my neck twice.<\/p>\n<p>SUCCESS! The two layers force it to stay closer to my neck, but it&#8217;s still loose enough (especially now after I&#8217;ve worn it a few times and the yarn has blocked itself) not to choke me. And it&#8217;s still wooly. WOOHOO! I&#8217;m pretty proud of myself, but it will be getting its trial by fire in a few more days when I take it to Bolivia with me.\u00a0<em>Can you keep out the cold wind of the high desert, twisty cowl? Can you?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ya veremos, mis amigos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized something in January while I was working on\u00a0Imitation Girl in the bitter cold: tucking scarf ends into your jacket can be kind of a pain the butt. I&#8217;ve made other cowl-type objects, and while I love the fact that you just throw them over your head and go, I was less thrilled that they inevitably grew out of shape and thus\u00a0away from the very neck they were intended.. <a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=907\">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":[4],"tags":[24,20,63,21],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-adventure-time","tag-finished-object","tag-improvised","tag-triumph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}