{"id":9268,"date":"2019-07-08T01:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2019-07-08T05:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T10:20:05","slug":"tour-de-france-knitalong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9268","title":{"rendered":"tour de france knitalong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tour de France Knitalong, which runs concurrently with the bike race, has commenced, and I have decided on a knitting pattern:<\/p>\n

4-Ever in Blue Jeans<\/a> by Cally Monster<\/a><\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to use some purple sparkly MadTosh Sock (colorway: Iris) Rudi gave me this winter for the solid color, and Rudi and I scoured my stash for something that would be a good contrast color.<\/p>\n

Holi Festival, also by Madelinetosh, was, somewhat reluctantly, what I settled on. I think the white base is too white, and, frankly, I suspect the purple will run, which might be fine or not, depending on how it goes.<\/p>\n

While looking for the right needles, I stumbled across a skein I’d started a sock in that seemed like it also might work. It has gotten separated somehow from its ballband, but I’m nearly positive it’s Araucania Itata Multy, a wool-silk-bamboo rayon blend. Because it contains silk, the kinkiness where I’d knit with it seems to have flattened this end of the yarn a bit, but where I haven’t worked it yet, it looks similar to the MadTosh. <\/p>\n

I did a bit of a swatch:<\/p>\n

\"TDFKAL<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The Holi Festival skein is used at the bottom and follows the pattern exactly, but it was making my swatch double in size, so I bound off all the extra stitches and sort of approximated things at the top for the Araucania just to get it done.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think? In the morning I’ll rip out both and start knitting with my purple yarn. I’ll have a bunch of rows before I make a commitment for that second yarn, so feel free to weigh in if you have thoughts (including if your thought is to go stash diving again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tour de France Knitalong, which runs concurrently with the bike race, has commenced, and I have decided on a knitting pattern: 4-Ever in Blue Jeans by Cally Monster I knew I wanted to use some purple sparkly MadTosh Sock (colorway: Iris) Rudi gave me this winter for the solid color, and Rudi and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"yoast_head":"\ntour de france knitalong - sprite writes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9268\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"tour de france knitalong - 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