{"id":488,"date":"2014-01-15T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2014-01-15T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:46:37","slug":"new-year-new-stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/15\/new-year-new-stash\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year New Stash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why, yes, it has been a long time since the last post. Thank you for asking.<\/p>\n

First things first: the winner of the skein of sock yarn from the last post…<\/p>\n

There were three comments qualifying for yarn. I couldn’t decide between them on merit, since they were all good reasons. I went to a random number generator and it said number 1 was the winner. Chronologically, the first comment was from Daisy<\/a>. A skein of yarn will be heading your way soon. Seems a fair reward for getting me into this knitting malarky in the first place.<\/p>\n

Would you like to see the loot? Of course you would. I’ve been doing a lot of show and tell sessions when knitters come to visit.<\/p>\n

\"Prize<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to see the details, I suggest going to look at my ravelry stash<\/a>, since it is all photographed and catalogued in detail.<\/p>\n

Progress in knitting<\/h2>\n

Since the beginning of November, there has been much knitting. I had been asked for a hat and hand warmer combination for Christmas from my sister. The hat was completed in mid-November, the hand warmers just after New Year – she enjoyed trying the half-completed hand warmers on when we saw her at Christmas. The hat was a heavily adapted design and the hand warmers were a completely new design, since I couldn’t find what I wanted on Ravelry.<\/p>\n

\"handwarmers\"<\/a>
I think she likes them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where would you go to find an expert in how to make gloves fit really well? For socks I know that Cookie A or Cat Bordhi are good to go to when you want the technical details. Is there a gloves guru?<\/p>\n

The reason for the delay in the hand warmers was that I decided to join the Sock Madness Advent Scarf knit-along. From December 1st to 24th, I awoke each day to an email with the next section of pattern in it. It was all in 2-colour stranded knitting and I really enjoyed it. I kept up with the schedule until the 21st December, then work got really, really crazily busy so I paused. The scarf is now upstairs, blocking, before I graft it together to make an infinity scarf.<\/p>\n

It is possible that I might have got the KAL bug because I’ve just started another one: the Ysolda Teague Follow Your Arrow Mystery Knit Along<\/a>. Clue 1 was released on Monday, so if you want to join in there is still plenty of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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