{"id":1014,"date":"2020-01-14T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2020-01-14T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:18:48","slug":"ode-to-a-mystery-chunky-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/ode-to-a-mystery-chunky-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a mystery chunky yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Stashfindtwo2020-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Stashfindtwo2020-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Stashfindtwo2020.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>One of the benefits of working on multiple projects at a time is that I don&#8217;t get bored with crocheting. Also, since I&#8217;m working on afghans, after a short time, they are too large to be portable. <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Enter the simple, functional and humble scarf.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started another scarf because I needed a portable project and the other scarf I&#8217;m working on is in my desk at work. When I was sorting through my working yarn stash, I found a chunky marled gray yarn. Someone obviously didn&#8217;t like it. There was a bit of it, unbanded wound into cakes in a torn plastic bag. One bit was double stranded, likely because the previous crafter had an idea that just didn&#8217;t work out. I can definitely relate to that.<\/p>\n<p>How it came to be in my stash is probably through a thrift store, as the yarn was still in a torn plastic bag. I like it and I like working with it &#8211; a lot. Generally, bulky yarns aren&#8217;t my favorite, but there&#8217;s something about this yarn that drew me in. An N\/9.00 mm hook, a simple shell stitch and the scarf was almost halfway done in about 75 minutes. What I don\u2019t like about this yarn is that there&#8217;s no band, so I can&#8217;t buy more or even find an equivalent to an older, discontinued yarn.<\/p>\n<p>My hope is that the future recipient enjoys wearing it as much as I am enjoying working with the yarn.<\/p>\n<p>Happy crocheting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the benefits of working on multiple projects at a time is that I don&#8217;t get bored with crocheting. Also, since I&#8217;m working on afghans, after a short time, they are too large to be portable. Enter the simple, functional and humble scarf. I started another scarf because I needed a portable project and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}