{"id":225,"date":"2014-06-08T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:52:45","slug":"dreaming-about-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming about color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was sick with cold, I was dreaming about color, color and color. So as soon as I felt better, I started knitting Stephen West&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/zoolandia\" target=\"_blank\">Zoolandia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in a really crazy yarn &#8211; blue, orange, pink, yellow, white. Just what I needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dsc00084.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dsc00084.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSC00084\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dsc00084.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dsc00084-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dsc00084-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dsc00084-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The yarn is Online Supersocke, the color is called orange-mix.<\/p>\n<p>I also ordered two balls of<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/schachenmayr-regia-fluormania-color\" target=\"_blank\"> Regia Fluormania Color.\u00a0<\/a>The yarn is just gorgeous, I&#8217;ve started a beautiful honeycomb scarf with one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dscn1119.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dscn1119.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN1119\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dscn1120.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-255\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/dscn1120.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSCN1120\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dscn1120.jpg 4320w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dscn1120-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dscn1120-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dscn1120-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you wondered what happened to the long list of WIPs I showed you &#8211; I&#8217;ve knit a little bit on the Sweet &amp; Simple Top. So they are not forgotten \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The test for my Jolanda pattern is almost over, it&#8217;s so exciting that she will be released into the world soon. The test-knitters made some really beautiful versions.<\/p>\n<p>My next design is finished and blocking. It&#8217;s a top-down triangular lace shawl worked in Drops Kid-Silk and I just love the look and feel of the yarn. It&#8217;s so soft and light and warm &#8211; like a really snuggly cloud. Stay tuned for a sneak peek as soon as I get my hubby to take photos \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>While knitting this shawl, I learned that\u00a0 mohair\/silk-yarns are much stronger than they look. You can wet-block it just as you would wool and even put it in the dryer (in just air-mode) if it doesn&#8217;t regain its fluffyness when it&#8217;s dried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was sick with cold, I was dreaming about color, color and color. So as soon as I felt better, I started knitting Stephen West&#8217;s Zoolandia\u00a0\u00a0in a really crazy yarn &#8211; blue, orange, pink, yellow, white. Just what I needed. The yarn is Online Supersocke, the color is called orange-mix. I also ordered two &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=225\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dreaming about color<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}