{"id":45,"date":"2006-12-12T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-03-23T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:26:10","slug":"so-much-for-that-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/so-much-for-that-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for that yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really need to pay more attention to details when I’m buying yarn for my projects. It turned out that that lovely, soft and furry yarn I found for the border collie was “bulky” weight, not dk (which is sort of between worsted and sport), so when I knitted up the back of the dog, the gauge was completely off. I ended up having to go and buy another couple of skeins of yarn, but I wasn’t able to find any dk or sport weight in the brownish colour I wanted (since my mother’s border collie is brown and white, not black and white, those are the colours I wanted to use), so I had to go with black and white instead. Ah well. I’ll just have to use that furry yarn on some other project… maybe a hat.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a pic of what the dog’s supposed to look like when I’m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really need to pay more attention to details when I’m buying yarn for my projects. It turned out that that lovely, soft and furry yarn I found for the border collie was “bulky” weight, not dk (which is sort of between worsted and sport), so when I knitted up the back of the dog, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}