{"id":1722,"date":"2008-08-03T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2008-08-03T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T20:26:00","slug":"blue-fleece-artist-swatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"blue Fleece Artist swatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/2729320347\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3155\/2729320347_9c1483af24_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/ height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swatch for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedsistersknitting.com\/catalog.php?id=66\" target=\"blank\">Twisted Sisters&#8217; &#8220;Eve&#8221; scarf.<\/a>  Swatch knitted on size 6 needle in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorsongyarn.com\/yarns\/fleece_artist\/woolie_silk_2_ply.htm\" target=\"blank\">Fleece Artist Woolie Silk 2ply.<\/a>  I&#8217;m getting proper gauge, 6 stitches and 8 rows to one inch, but it feels loose.  You don&#8217;t want it to be tight if you&#8217;re going to be doing cables, but still.  I may go down to a size 5 needle.<\/p>\n<p>ETA:  Correction.  I checked again, and I was using a #5.  I&#8217;m sorry, but I have a psychological barrier to knitting a gigantic scarf on size 4&#8217;s, so I&#8217;m sticking with the 5.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swatch for Twisted Sisters&#8217; &#8220;Eve&#8221; scarf. Swatch knitted on size 6 needle in Fleece Artist Woolie Silk 2ply. I&#8217;m getting proper gauge, 6 stitches and 8 rows to one inch, but it feels loose. You don&#8217;t want it to be tight if you&#8217;re going to be doing cables, but still. I may go down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}