{"id":21178,"date":"2025-09-12T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:02:05","slug":"daily_3846_-_yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/09\/12\/daily_3846_-_yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3846 – yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The red cardigan is done and I am starting to think of the next knitting project. (I’ve got to remember to take a proper picture of it when worn – it looks better on a body than on a table.)<\/p>\n

Money is rather tighter this year than it has been in the past, and I’m looking for more budget-friendly yarns. There are tons and tons (almost literal tons, I think) of yarn on Tradera. I’ve been keeping an eye on the stuff that turns up there. A lot of it is nice, but not right for me; finding something that I know I will use requires patience.<\/p>\n

This lot was interesting enough for me to bid immediately. Marks & Kattens Recycled is 100% recycled wool, and with a slightly hand-dyed feel to it – semi-solid colours rather than that perfectly even colour that is common in yarn from large-scale production. And with this purchase I get a palette of colours that I like, but might not have chosen on my own. I’ve been thinking that I want to knit more colourful designs going forward; this is a nice nudge in that direction. Plus it’s an established Swedish brand that I can buy more from. That’s a concern that has held me back from bidding on some of the yarns at Tradera: if the yarn isn’t quite enough for whatever I end up knitting, and the brand is an odd one, it might be hard to get more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The red cardigan is done and I am starting to think of the next knitting project. (I’ve got to remember to take a proper picture of it when worn – it looks better on a body than on a table.) Money is rather tighter this year than it has been in the past, and I’m […]<\/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-21178","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\/21178","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=21178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21179,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions\/21179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}