{"id":439,"date":"2014-11-11T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:52:37","slug":"name-my-cowl-win-a-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Name my cowl &#8211; Win a pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, yarn can be really chatty. It tells me exactly what it wants to be, or what I should name the pattern it will become.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiri Alpakka I brought from Norway was quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/dsc00758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-302\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/dsc00758.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"DSC00758\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dsc00758.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dsc00758-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dsc00758-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dsc00758-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beautiful, so soft and snuggly. But it doesn&#8217;t talk much. And when it does, all it ever says is &#8220;No&#8221;. I swatched and swatched and swatched, but it did not want to become anything. If Grumpy Cat was a yarn, it would be my Chiri Alpakka.<\/p>\n<p>The white yarn finally said it might want to become a cowl. But not together with the red yarn, and not with the first &#8230; hundred stitch patterns I tried. (I might be exaggerating a little bit, but I definitely haven&#8217;t swatched that much for a single yarn ever before).<\/p>\n<p>The cowl is finally done, but I still don&#8217;t know what it wants to be called&#8230; So here comes your chance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/lccowl-hero.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/lccowl-hero.png\" alt=\"LCCowl-Hero\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lccowl-hero.png 404w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lccowl-hero-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/lccowl-hero-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come over to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/discuss\/knitted-in-switzerland\/3067915\/1-25\" target=\"_blank\">Ravelry Group<\/a> and suggest a name for my cowl for a chance to win one of my patterns of your choice for free!<\/p>\n<p>End date: November 18th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, yarn can be really chatty. It tells me exactly what it wants to be, or what I should name the pattern it will become. The Chiri Alpakka I brought from Norway was quite the opposite. It&#8217;s beautiful, so soft and snuggly. But it doesn&#8217;t talk much. And when it does, all it ever says &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=439\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Name my cowl &#8211; Win a pattern<\/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\/439"}],"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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}