{"id":6168,"date":"2015-02-04T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:13:15","slug":"knitting-downtown-cowl-with-a-good-yarn-sarasota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/knitting-downtown-cowl-with-a-good-yarn-sarasota\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting: Downtown Cowl with A Good Yarn Sarasota"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Good Yarn<\/a> is a sweet fiber arts store in Sarasota, Florida. Last year, they launched an easy-to-use online shop, where you can browse all of their products, from yarns to notions, kits, and my favorite…exclusive colorways<\/a>! <\/p>\n

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When I was contacted to review one of the exclusive colorways, I was pretty thrilled. I chose the “Butterfly” colorway, which is one from their Purl Diver Collection. It is inspired by a beautiful photo of a Pyramid Butterfly Fish that was taken in the Soloman Islands. The gold, grays, and black were striking and caught my eye immediately. <\/p>\n

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The base yarn is Lorna’s Laces Sportmate. A very squishy sport-weight yarn made of 70% merino and 30% viscose.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I received this right before that extremely busy time of year that holds holidays, sickness, and more holidays, so it stayed untouched for a while. After most of that excitement of November and December died down, I wound the skein into a ball and went on a Ravelry hunt for the perfect pattern.<\/p>\n

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I wanted a pattern that would showcase color above all else. I loved the way all the colors looked together! I found the Downtown Cowl<\/a> and cast on December 30. [US 6 29″ circular needle]<\/i><\/p>\n

I needed a project for to knit while I sat in a waiting room at the hospital. December 31, my mom had to have a stent placed in her carotid artery, so I anxiously knit the time away. I needed something to keep my mind off what was going on behind closed doors; something to control when I felt so out<\/i> of control. This was perfect.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, it knit up beautifully! The colors all mixed into each other in the best possible ways. The length is perfect for wrapping twice around my neck, or three times if it’s a particularly chilly day. The yarn was dyed spectacularly, too. There was hardly any runoff when I rinsed it before blocking. By the way, how in the world do YOU block circle scarves? This one was hard! Thank goodness lace is so forgiving.<\/p>\n

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The color perfectly coordinates with my gray coat. The golds and white really pop against the black\/gray. Check out A Good Yarn<\/a> and give these beautiful colorways a try! <\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A Good Yarn is a sweet fiber arts store in Sarasota, Florida. Last year, they launched an easy-to-use online shop, where you can browse all of their products, from yarns to notions, kits, and my favorite…exclusive colorways! <\/p>\n

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When I was contacted to review one of the exclusive colorways, I was pretty thrilled. I chose the “Butterfly” colorway, which is one [Read More…]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,159],"tags":[227,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}