{"id":50,"date":"2005-05-21T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/what-a-surprise\/"},"modified":"2005-05-21T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T16:26:00","slug":"what-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/21\/what-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"What a surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep you guessed it, the felted bag has been languishing on the settee while I cast on for the hat for Nanny. The yarn was fun to work with though it took a bit of getting used to not stabbing the needle through the yarn (Schachenmayr Princess, 72% acrylic, 28% viscose) by accident. It was knitted on 4.5mm needles so zipped along quite quickly, and here are some piccies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/640\/P1010134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:#000000 1px solid;border-top:#000000 1px solid;border-left:#000000 1px solid;border-bottom:#000000 1px solid;margin:2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/320\/P1010134.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Hat for Nanny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello.com\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;padding:0;\" alt=\"Posted by Hello\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbh.gif\" align=\"absMiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one shows up the cable around the bottom well but the colour didn&#8217;t come out at all realistically, so the following one is a much better colour match, but unfortunately you can&#8217;t really see the texture detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/640\/P1010132.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:#000000 1px solid;border-top:#000000 1px solid;border-left:#000000 1px solid;border-bottom:#000000 1px solid;margin:2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/320\/P1010132.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Hat for Nanny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello.com\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;padding:0;\" alt=\"Posted by Hello\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbh.gif\" align=\"absMiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pattern is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tiajudy.com\/braidcap.htm\">Braid-edged Cap<\/a> by Judy Gibson, I used 4.5mm needles and slightly thinner yarn than specified because Nanny has quite a small head. Also instead of casting on and casting off and then sewing the edges together I cast on on waste yarn and grafted the beginning to the end since I didn&#8217;t want any seams. It was a fun knit, and I&#8217;m looking forward to doing another one in the mauve yarn I bought. I will hopefully borrow Annie to model it next week as my head is too big(!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep you guessed it, the felted bag has been languishing on the settee while I cast on for the hat for Nanny. The yarn was fun to work with though it took a bit of getting used to not stabbing the needle through the yarn (Schachenmayr Princess, 72% acrylic, 28% viscose) by accident. 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