{"id":144,"date":"2009-02-09T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/uncategorized\/rowan-new-shapes\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T20:24:00","slug":"rowan-new-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/rowan-new-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan New Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am SO excited to be finally getting the Rowan New Shapes pattern book – I love the Anise jacket (shown here on the cover) and tried to make a Blythe-sized version (abandoned halfway through, boo!) over a year ago. I didn’t think I’d be knitting anything adult-sized so I never bought the book – until I saw Jenny\/Wikstenmade’s beautiful cardigan<\/a> on Flickr and Ravelry. That pushed me over the edge and I had to go searching for New Shapes – found it on Kaleidoscope last week and now it’s on its way to my hot little hands.  I got my copy through Kaleidoscope Yarns<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I’m a bit nervous about trying the patterns, though. First of all, Rowan yarn is not exactly cheap. About eight balls of yarn are required to make a garment, and I hesitate spending $120 on yarn that I may destroy with my novice knitting. And, I am absolutely terrible at seaming. I can’t hand-sew to save my life. Oh dear, what have I gotten myself into?! After some thought, I’m most likely going to purchase a few balls of practice yarn (Perhaps LionBrand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick?) and do a few practice runs. At $5 a skein, it won’t break my heart too much if I mess up… right?<\/p>\n

As scared as I am, I’m still pretty excited about trying my first Rowan patterns. I can’t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am SO excited to be finally getting the Rowan New Shapes pattern book – I love the Anise jacket (shown here on the cover) and tried to make a Blythe-sized version (abandoned halfway through, boo!) over a year ago. I didn’t think I’d be knitting anything adult-sized so I never bought the book –… Continue reading Rowan New Shapes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}