{"id":15472,"date":"2022-03-10T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15472"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:31:39","slug":"daily_2600_-_unplanned_yarn_purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/daily_2600_-_unplanned_yarn_purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2600 &#8211; unplanned yarn purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2600_yarn.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI did plan to go yarn shopping yesterday, but I was only going to buy a single hank, just for swatching. After swatching I was going to measure and plan and think, and only then would I go back to buy yarn for real. Instead I came home with the materials for an entire cardigan.<\/p>\n<p>I had my sights set on Tosh Merino Light, a luxuriously soft yarn in the most brilliant hand-dyed colours. Kind of expensive, but hey, the last cardigan I knitted took me a year, and 1500 kronor or so for a year&#8217;s entertainment is pretty good value for money.<\/p>\n<p>To my shock I saw that there was only a single hank left of the colourway I loved most (<a href=\"https:\/\/madelinetosh.com\/products\/tosh-merino-light-carolinareaper-2020\">Tosh Merino Light &#8211; Carolina Reaper<\/a>). The yarn is made in the US, so ordering more would mean unpredictable weeks of waiting, which I didn&#8217;t feel like, at all.<\/p>\n<p>So I grabbed that single hank and designed my next cardigan project around it on the spot. Together with three matching colours it fit into a yellow-orange-red fade. Which means the pattern should be seamless (to make that fade work) and relatively pared-down, with none of the lacy or textured patterns I&#8217;ve been considering. Constraints always make decisions easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did plan to go yarn shopping yesterday, but I was only going to buy a single hank, just for swatching. After swatching I was going to measure and plan and think, and only then would I go back to buy yarn for real. Instead I came home with the materials for an entire cardigan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15880,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}