{"id":17,"date":"2006-08-11T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-10-14T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:43:50","slug":"wip-lightweight-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wip-lightweight-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"wip: lightweight scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart and Michaels are both having excellent clearance sales on yarn this week. I picked up this lot for $10!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yarnbargain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with it all yet &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking some kind of crochet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/amigurumi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amigurumi<\/a> soft toys for the brown fluffy yarn. I&#8217;ve started making a scarf with the purple Bernat Matrix yarn:<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"\/blog\/images\/wipmatrixscarf.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/wipmatrixscarf.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was hoping that I could crochet this scarf in no time, but I find the yarn difficult to work with. My crochet hook keeps slipping in between the top and bottom edges of the yarn, as it&#8217;s mostly empty space between the blocks of colour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/yarnmatrix.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting the hang of it now, but it&#8217;s still slow going.\u00a0The colour is pretty, though, and the texture of the scarf is interesting.\u00a0I\u00a0think I&#8217;ll wear this\u00a0when it gets a bit cooler, maybe with a denim jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart and Michaels are both having excellent clearance sales on yarn this week. I picked up this lot for $10! I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with it all yet &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking some kind of crochet amigurumi soft toys for the brown fluffy yarn. I&#8217;ve started making a scarf with the purple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}