{"id":10611,"date":"2017-04-24T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T22:52:42","slug":"crete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/projects\/crete\/","title":{"rendered":"Crete."},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne recently completed her “Crete,” a beautiful warm-weather accessory you’ll find hanging on our wall here at the shop.<\/p>\n

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“Crete”<\/a> is worked with two yarns: Shibui Twig<\/a>, a sport weight blend of linen, recycled silk, and wool,\u00a0and the brand new Shibui Lunar<\/a>, a lace weight blend of merino and silk.<\/p>\n

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This stockinette bias scarf begins and ends with Twig, and uses Lunar and Twig together during the body of the piece for a bit of transparency on either end. It\u2019s this kind of simple-yet-clever detail that we\u2019ve come to expect from Shibui, along with elegance.<\/p>\n

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Before blocking, however, the fabric is far from elegant; stockinette naturally wants to curl, and it needs a good blocking to become the smooth, gently draping fabric shown in the pattern photo.<\/p>\n

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Don’t be disappointed when your “Crete” comes off the needles looking like this, just give it a nice bath with some room-temperature water and Eucalan, then put your blocking wires to work. That’s what Anne did, with wondrous results.<\/p>\n

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Choose matching shades of Twig and Lunar for a subtle, sophisticated fabric.<\/p>\n

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Or, chose similar, low-contrast color combinations for a different effect – a subtly marled fabric with solid-yet-sheer ends.<\/p>\n

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This pattern is the subject of Shibui’s current\u00a0knit-along, and is free when you purchase Shibui yarns for the project. We’re also offering a class on \u201cCrete,\u201d for new knitters who want help learning to increase, decrease, work with two strands of yarn together, and practice pattern reading. Head to our Classes<\/a> page to read more about it and sign up, if you like!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne recently completed her “Crete,” a beautiful warm-weather accessory you’ll find hanging on our wall here at the shop. “Crete” is worked with two yarns: Shibui Twig, a sport weight blend of linen, recycled silk, and wool,\u00a0and the brand new Shibui Lunar, a lace weight blend of merino and silk. This stockinette bias scarf begins … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[111,78,73,212,66],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}