{"id":190,"date":"2009-03-13T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2015-06-23T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:15:45","slug":"a_cowl_for_allison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a_cowl_for_allison\/","title":{"rendered":"a cowl for Allison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wheee!  Two blog posts and two completed knits in one whole week!<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/azq.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/azq.sized.jpg\" width=425 alt=\"Darkside Cowl\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>My lovely friend Allison had a birthday this past weekend, and being the lovely person she is, deserved something that was squishy and warm and red.  I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to crank out a pair of socks in just a few days so I decided to go with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/hiptopiecesquares\/darkside-cowl\">Darkside Cowl<\/a>.  I love how defined the stitch pattern is, but yet is still simple enough to wear just about with anything.  It was also a perfect way for me to use a nice yarn and be finished in less than a month.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/azr.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/azr.sized.jpg\" width=425 alt=\"squishy and red\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p> Allison is also a knitter and appreciates good yarn so I picked out<br \/>\nsomething I hadn&#8217;t seen before &#8212; Elsebeth Lavold Baby Llama.  LLAMA!  This stuff is super soft and squishy.  I&#8217;m a little worried that it might pill and nub up a bit, but hopefully the softness will make up for any of that.<\/p>\n<p>Pattern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/darkside-cowl\">here<\/a>, yo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheee! Two blog posts and two completed knits in one whole week! My lovely friend Allison had a birthday this past weekend, and being the lovely person she is, deserved something that was squishy and warm and red. I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to crank out a pair of socks in just a few <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a_cowl_for_allison\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}