{"id":1907,"date":"2018-02-14T19:15:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2018-02-14T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:15:36","slug":"malabrigo-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Malabrigo beauty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1916 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/291.jpg\" alt=\"29\" width=\"444\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First off, I&#8217;m delighted to say that my Fair Isle hat pattern is now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveknitting.com\/four-fair-isle-hats-knitting-pattern-by-alice-neal?a_aid=7d8ae305\">loveknitting website here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, while I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;m showing you this. Because I started it more moons ago than I care to remember, and I STILL haven&#8217;t finished it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1906\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/polar-bears4.jpg\" alt=\"polar bears4\" width=\"1217\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I called it &#8220;The Husband Jumper&#8221; and I have promised, <em>promised<\/em>, that I will finish it&#8230;. like&#8230; now&#8230; but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>To news!<\/p>\n<p>Check out this absolute gorgeousness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1910\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/12.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Malabrigo Mecha in Polar Morn and Candombe colourways.<\/p>\n<p>It. Is. Divine.<\/p>\n<p>Squishy 100% merino wool gorgeousness.<\/p>\n<p>And when it arrived&#8230; well&#8230; I just <em>had<\/em> to start a jumper. I mean, you get it, right? I may have about 3 million wips as it is, but this. *sigh* It had to be done.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; here was my first progress picture of my new top-down, round yoke, fairisle design:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1911\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/22.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m absolutely loving it. From the squishiness of the yarn, through the definition of the stitches, and the beautiful range of colour in each strand.<\/p>\n<p>The yoke is now finished, the sleeves separated off, and the body underway:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1912\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/32.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More news as and when I&#8217;ve stormed through more!<\/p>\n<p>Ooh, ooh, and actually&#8230; do you remember this?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1521\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/sublime2.jpg\" alt=\"sublime2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1517\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/stripes-and-swirls1.jpg\" alt=\"stripes-and-swirls1\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveknitting.com\/stripes-and-swirls-sweater-knitting-pattern-by-alice-neal?a_aid=7d8ae305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(It&#8217;s the &#8220;Stripes and Swirls&#8221; pattern here)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I wear it <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">all the time<\/span> and wanted to make another, only to discover that the yarn is discontinued. Now, that wouldn&#8217;t matter &#8211; any aran of the right gauge will do &#8211; but I <em>really wanted<\/em> to use the same one.<\/p>\n<p>I have lots of the ecru left, for starters. So it makes sense to make another, but I fancied doing it &#8216;in reverse&#8217;, with the main body in colour and the patterns &#8216;in relief&#8217; if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Ebay came up trumps this time and I&#8217;ve got a lovely greeny-brown to make another with.<\/p>\n<p>Best finish the Husband Jumper first though, eh? (And don&#8217;t even get me started on the cardi I promised my mum for her birthday&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Too much wool, too little time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much knitting, many yarns, not enough time #knitting #handmade #36hourday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1913,"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":[28,32,33],"tags":[129,136,148,237,241,247,261,262,269,284,290,307,362,401,403,425,427,440],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-sale","category-news","category-patterns","tag-comfort","tag-crafts","tag-design","tag-hygge","tag-inspiration","tag-journal","tag-knitspo","tag-knitstagram","tag-knitting","tag-knitwear-design","tag-lifestyle","tag-malabrigo","tag-polar-morn","tag-slow-fashion","tag-slow-stitches","tag-stripes-and-swirls","tag-sublime-luxurious-aran-tweed","tag-the-husband-jumper"],"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\/1907","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=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/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=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}