{"id":18443,"date":"2024-01-28T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2024-02-04T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:03:46","slug":"daily_3268_-_how_to_handle_this_funky_yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/01\/28\/daily_3268_-_how_to_handle_this_funky_yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3268 &#8211; how to handle this funky yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3268_funky_yarn_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI found this funky vintage wool yarn at Tradera (Swedish ebay) and bought it because I liked the look of it. After winding it, I still like the look of it. (Which is not always the case &#8211; most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/daily_2295_-_a_yarn_i_struggled_with\/\">ugliest yarn I ever bought<\/a> is still in my yarn stash.)<\/p>\n<p>Knitting it into something that looks good will require some more work, though. The yarn varies not just in colour but also in thickness, and it&#8217;s got a kind of a curl to it, like it&#8217;s been spun around a wire that&#8217;s later been removed. In straight up stocking stitch it just made stripes, not the variegation I had expected, and the stitches looked uneven. It really didn&#8217;t do the yarn justice.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3268_funky_yarn_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I tried all sorts of other things, to mix up the stripes: combining it with a solid colour in slip-stitch patterns; slip-stitch patterns with just the funky yarn, both on stocking stitch and on reverse stocking stitch. And then &#8211; just simple garter stitch, which worked better than any of the other stitches. Broke up the stripes just enough to soften the impression, but without muddling it all up (like what happened with the 2nd attempt of combining it with black).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3268_funky_yarn_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this funky vintage wool yarn at Tradera (Swedish ebay) and bought it because I liked the look of it. After winding it, I still like the look of it. (Which is not always the case &#8211; most of the ugliest yarn I ever bought is still in my yarn stash.) Knitting it into [&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-18443","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\/18443","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=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18447,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}