{"id":421,"date":"2004-10-28T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2009-09-03T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:39:13","slug":"cushy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"cushy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/slitscarf1.jpg\" target=\"blank\" title=\"slit scarf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/slitscarf1.jpg\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"right\" height=\"150\"><\/a>I&#8217;d recently seen patterns for keyhole scarves that I thought were kind of interesting.  Basically, you make a small hole in one side of the scarf to thread the other side through, tying it without having to have a knot.  All the ones I saw were for novelty yarns, though, and I really wanted to knit something big and bulky and warm.  A teeny little hole wasn&#8217;t going to admit a bulky yarn.   So I decided to make a slit going lengthwise instead of a short hole widthwise, and did the whole scarf in seed stitch for a more interesting, bumpy texture.  <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/slitscarf1.jpg\">And, voila!<\/a>  It works very well, and seems to go nicely either in front or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/slitscarfon.jpg\">over the shoulder.<\/a>  The yarn is <a href=\"http:\/\/store.nobleknits.com\/yuyabypl.html\">Plymouth Yukon<\/a>, a blend of wool, mohair, and acrylic.  Very cushiony feeling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pondering knitting a shorter version of this in pink, as it remind me of the breast cancer ribbons one sees about.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d recently seen patterns for keyhole scarves that I thought were kind of interesting. Basically, you make a small hole in one side of the scarf to thread the other side through, tying it without having to have a knot. All the ones I saw were for novelty yarns, though, and I really wanted 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}