{"id":1685,"date":"2012-05-16T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2012-05-16T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T10:29:16","slug":"yarn-along-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Yarn Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining in with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/2012\/05\/yarn-along-77.html\">Ginny<\/a> from Small Things.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to say I have finished the cowl from last week and posted about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/?p=1681\">here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Over the weekend I managed to cast on and finish a Raspberry Beret. \u00c2\u00a0It was a quick knit. \u00c2\u00a0The pattern was easy to follow and the beret is very cute. \u00c2\u00a0However, the yarn I used wasn&#8217;t 10 ply like I had originally thought, but more like 12ply. \u00c2\u00a0I used smaller needles that the pattern called for, as I had intended the beret for\u00c2\u00a0either Scarlett or Tenneille, but it fits me! \u00c2\u00a0May try it again with some 8 ply yarn and see if I can get the right size for the girls. \u00c2\u00a0The pattern is free and can be found on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/raspberry-beret-2\">Ravelry<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0The photos don&#8217;t really do it justice, it looks better on, but I couldn&#8217;t get a good picture wearing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspberryberetravelry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1686\" title=\"raspberryberetravelry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspberryberetravelry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspberryberetravelry.jpg 553w, http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspberryberetravelry-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1687\" title=\"raspeberryberetravelry3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry3.jpg 564w, http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry3-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1688\" title=\"raspeberryberetravelry2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/raspeberryberetravelry2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for reading, I still haven&#8217;t started the book I mentioned last week, instead I&#8217;m reading a kindle book (surprise, surprise!) called, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa farm girl, By Carol Bodensteiner. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m only a few chapters in but I am loving it already. \u00c2\u00a0Having spent my childhood in the country, I can relate to a lot of what has been written. \u00c2\u00a0It seems country life is similar, no matter where you grow up. \u00c2\u00a0I am looking forward to reading more of it tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing everybody&#8217;s crafty loveliness and reading about your book reviews. \u00c2\u00a0Jacinta x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining in with Ginny from Small Things. I am happy to say I have finished the cowl from last week and posted about it here. \u00c2\u00a0Over the weekend I managed to cast on and finish a Raspberry Beret. \u00c2\u00a0It was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/?p=1685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,56,237],"tags":[663,693,695,691,344,696,694,692],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-knitting","category-recommendations","category-yarn-along-2","tag-beret","tag-book-recommendation","tag-carol-bodensteiner","tag-cowl","tag-easy-knit","tag-free-beret-pattern","tag-growing-up-country","tag-raspberry-beret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embracingitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}