{"id":806,"date":"2006-03-07T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2006-03-07T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T02:51:00","slug":"odessa-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Odessa revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pattern: Odessa<\/a> from MagKnits.
\nMaterials: Misti Alpaca suri silk<\/a> on #4 needles<\/p>\n

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\"Odessa<\/a><\/td>\nOdessa the second<\/strong>
\nThe second revision of Odessa, after the first one I started came out too short. This one is at least a half-inch longer in the body, and has two plain rows between the first three rows of decreases for a gentler curve. The sl1, k2tog, psso section was modified into sl1, k2togtbl, psso. It looked a little better than the first version, although I’m still not thrilled with how neat they turned out. That’s me, though, not the pattern.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\"Odessa<\/a><\/td>\nOdessa the second, rear view<\/strong>
\nThe spiralling looks good. You can also see it’s a little jerky, though, where the decrease rounds are. Also, it was difficult to work those final rows of ssk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\"Odessa<\/a><\/td>\nOdessa on my noggin<\/strong>
\nLonger than the first one, this one would cover my ears if I pulled it down a bit. Hopefully that’ll be good for someone with no hair to get in the way. And speaking of hair, I need a haircut BADLY. The trademark wings I get when the bangs go too long are threatening to send me airborne.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This was knitted from one and a tenth balls of Misti Alpaca suri silk<\/a> in ruby on #4 needles. The ball band of the yarn doesn’t have a recommended needle size. But no way is this “worsted” as the label says it is. DK, maybe. On the up side? Softest. Yarn. Ever.<\/p>\n

I ran out of the first ball about five rows from the end. Had I simply omitted one of the extra rounds, one ball would have sufficed. The ssk decreases called for in the pattern were modified to slip 1 knitwise, slip 1 purlwise, knit two together. It made a neater edge. See below for example.<\/p>\n


\nOld Odessa, worked on #6 needles with a decrease of SSK (both slipped knitwise).<\/p>\n


\nNew Odessa, worked on #4 needles wih a decrease of “improved” SSK (first slipped knitwise, second slipped purlwise).<\/p>\n

Naturally smaller needles accounts for some of the change, but I can still tell a difference in technique.<\/p>\n

This was a fun pattern, and I’d do it again with beads for myself. I’ve even got some Aurora Karabella 8 that would work, with bigger needles and fewer repeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}