{"id":1425,"date":"2013-01-16T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-01-16T06:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T11:53:47","slug":"like-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Like a Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Like-A-Feather\/dp\/B000THB2N8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1358335954&#038;s=dmusic&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back around Thanksgiving, Mr. Penney was talking to his mother. At this time, she hinted that it would be really nice if I could knit her a cowl like she saw at J.C.Penney. I went and took a look at the cowls that J.C.Penney was selling, and decided that I did not like any of them, so I was devise one of my own. And here it is!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?attachment_id=1426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/like-a-feather-cowl-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"like-a-feather-cowl\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/like-a-feather-cowl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/like-a-feather-cowl-399x300.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/like-a-feather-cowl.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The yarn I used is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonflyfibers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragonfly Fibers&#8217;<\/a> Djinni Sock in Wood Hyacinth &#8211; B side single. (B side single meaning that it is not the regular for the colorway). The cowl itself only took about a half of a skein.<\/p>\n<p>The main stitch pattern is Japanese Feather from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A-Second-Treasury-Knitting-Patterns\/dp\/0942018176\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1358336673&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=second+treasury+of+knitting+patterns\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns <\/em>by Barbara G. Walker.<\/a> The top and bottom of the cowl is just seed stitch. Since the Japanese Feather pattern is an odd number of stitches to the repeat, I did an odd number of repeats so that there would be an odd number of stitches for the cowl overall, and thus, the seed stitch could be worked as a continuous k1, p1, with no break between rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was done knitting, I blocked the hell out of it. I am pretty happy with the way that it came out, and my mother-in-law got it for Christmas and loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2013 by G. P. Donohue for textillian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference Back around Thanksgiving, Mr. Penney was talking to his mother. At this time, she hinted that it would be really nice if I could knit her a cowl like she saw at J.C.Penney. I went and took a look at the cowls that J.C.Penney was selling, and decided that I did not like any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after","category-clothing","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}