{"id":381,"date":"2014-10-02T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:52:44","slug":"whos-on-a-yarn-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s on a yarn diet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is a yarn diet really a yarn diet if you don&#8217;t break it once in a while?<\/p>\n<p>And who could say no to this wonderful eye candy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/dsc01259.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-383\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/dsc01259.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSC01259\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dsc01259.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dsc01259-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dsc01259-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dsc01259-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s just six balls of yarn, and I&#8217;ve used two balls last week, every little bit of them until nothing was left.<\/p>\n<p>The Drops Air is gorgeous, I could pet it all day. The yarn is not spun, but air-blown into a tube. Do I have to learn air-blowing now instead of spinning? I hope not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The two balls on the right are Schoppelwolle Gradient, a worsted weight version of their beautiful Zauberball yarn. The blue one will be knit together with a strand of the weight Big Fabel, I hope my idea will look as nice in reality as it does in my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the proof that I&#8217;ve used two balls of yarn, the Viking Eco Alpaca I brought from Norway in the summer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/1-kopie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/1-kopie.jpg?w=297\" alt=\"1 Kopie\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-kopie.jpg 2714w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-kopie-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-kopie-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-kopie-1017x1024.jpg 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of it became this cowl that went into testing today. If you&#8217;re interested in testing it, come <a href=\"www.ravelry.com\/discuss\/knitted-in-switzerland\/3037746\/1-25\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/dsc01252.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-382\" src=\"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/dsc01252.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"DSC01252\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest was turned into a pair of slippers using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/142-40-lollipop---slippers-in-andes\" target=\"_blank\">this pattern <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a yarn diet really a yarn diet if you don&#8217;t break it once in a while? And who could say no to this wonderful eye candy? Hey, it&#8217;s just six balls of yarn, and I&#8217;ve used two balls last week, every little bit of them until nothing was left. The Drops Air is gorgeous, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=381\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s on a yarn diet?<\/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\/381"}],"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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}