{"id":1522,"date":"2017-02-04T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2017-02-04T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T17:58:22","slug":"stripes-and-swirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Stripes and Swirls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a sucker for a sale.<\/p>\n

Well, actually, let’s rephrase that. I’m a sucker for a YARN sale.<\/p>\n

And I’ve been bombarded with emails telling me how much cheaper it all is since Christmas, so when this stuff – Sublime Luxurious Aran Tweed,<\/a> 40% wool, 40% cotton, 20% llama –\u00a0 was about half price, it was obviously<\/em> irresistible.<\/p>\n

Even though… erm… I didn’t exactly have a plan.<\/p>\n

But I’ve been completely bonkers about stripes lately. So, obviously, there had to be stripes.<\/p>\n

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And nothing is complete these days without a bit of a motif… When I told my beloved husband my plan to mix ’em up he looked, let’s say, a little skeptical. But he did have the good grace to follow the look with “But what do I <\/em>know?”<\/p>\n

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One of the most positive side-effects of this journey through my woollen world is this: for many years, an expression of doubt or uncertainty would have put me off continuing along my trajectory but at this grand old age and with the experiences I have under my belt (which I hesitate to label ‘good’ or ‘bad’ since they all led me here, after all) I don’t care. I have the courage of my conviction, and I’m going to do it anyway<\/em>. Sometimes, of course, it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m relieved to report, I believe it did.<\/p>\n

So, the Stripes and Swirls Sweater was born and I love it:<\/p>\n

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If you fancy a crack at it, you can find the pattern here.<\/a><\/p>\n

And beloved husband?<\/p>\n

“I think it’s your best yet.”<\/p>\n

See?<\/p>\n

Happy knitting!<\/p>\n

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I’m a sucker for a sale. Well, actually, let’s rephrase that. I’m a sucker for a YARN sale. And I’ve been bombarded with emails telling me how much cheaper it all is since Christmas, so when this stuff – Sublime Luxurious Aran Tweed, 40% wool, 40% cotton, 20% llama –\u00a0 was about half price, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[48,51,148,181,220,235,241,269,279,284,298,305,316,424,429,432],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-patterns","tag-alice-in-knittingland","tag-alice-neal","tag-design","tag-fibre-arts","tag-handmade","tag-homemade-wardrobe","tag-inspiration","tag-knitting","tag-knitting-pattern","tag-knitwear-design","tag-loveknitting","tag-make-it-yourself","tag-motifs","tag-stripes","tag-sweater","tag-swirls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}