{"id":37268,"date":"2017-07-11T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37268"},"modified":"2017-07-25T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T04:08:30","slug":"bamboo-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/bamboo-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37283\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCN1800sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCN1800sm-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo Yarn\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCN1800sm-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCN1800sm-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSCN1800sm.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bamboo Yarn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Occasionally I knit.<\/p>\n<p>I learned in Austria when I lived there and have made a sweater, a vest and a scarf that I can remember. Now I just knit scarves, though I am tempted to knit a skull cowl for the YM.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t for awhile, but when I saw the colors of this yarn, it drew me in and the softness sealed the deal.<\/p>\n<p>It ended up that the different widths of the yarn were really a pain, but I am pleased with how the scarf turned out. Knitting and listening to audiobooks is a great activity for airplane trips and you all know I had enough of those in the past few months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37288\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212.-e1499459974368-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo Scarf\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212.-e1499459974368-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212.-e1499459974368-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212.-e1499459974368-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459782212.-e1499459974368-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bamboo Scarf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37286\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459560485..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37286\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459560485.-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo Scarf detail\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459560485.-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459560485.-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wp-1499459560485.-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bamboo Scarf detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once I got the hang of knitting again, I went to town and was able to finish this scarf in a few months. I found that I liked purling better than knitting, which my SILs think is a scream, so the scarf I am working on now is all purling. I think I will do the next one with 4 purls on the edges and knits in between.<\/p>\n<p>I might enter this scarf in the Fair. I made it for me, so it will be around the house. I may, however, make another that is better. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I knit. I learned in Austria when I lived there and have made a sweater, a vest and a scarf that I can remember. Now I just knit scarves, though I am tempted to knit a skull cowl for the YM. I haven&#8217;t for awhile, but when I saw the colors of this yarn, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/bamboo-scarf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bamboo Scarf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[445,86],"class_list":["post-37268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-knitting","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}