{"id":4988,"date":"2016-02-16T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2016-02-16T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:08:18","slug":"a-monday-like-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"A Monday-like Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s catch up a bit!<\/p>\n

New Project: Top-down raglan<\/h3>\n

I don’t think I shared here that I started a new sweater for myself, inspired by Ann and Kay’s<\/a> “Bang out a sweater” knit along. I’m not knitting Mary Jane’s (lovely) Stopover, but instead one of my own design. It’s a top-down raglan wrap cardigan, worked in garter stitch – the grown-up version of my Mermaid Cardigan<\/a>! I’m using Fleece Artist Blue-faced Leicester DK in a lovely deep brown-black, with hints of blue.<\/p>\n

\"td-wrap-yoke\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m past the yoke divide now, but this one hasn’t been getting as much attention as I would like – I have 2 other sweaters to finish before the end of the month for a deadline!<\/p>\n

I did a little more spinning.<\/p>\n

\"barn-country-handspun-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"barn-country-handspun-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"barn-country-yarn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2016.5<\/h3>\n

Fibre: FatCatKnits<\/a> Superwash Targhee Combed Top, colour way: Barn Country 40
\nStructure: split lengthwise, singles spun end to end, basic 2 ply.
\nWPI: 14-15 WPI
\nYardage: 391 yards, 113g<\/p>\n

New Pattern: Polonium<\/h3>\n

And I have a new pattern out as well! Polmonium<\/a> is an easy, elegant hat and mitt set worked in super soft Miss Babs Caroline<\/a>. The largest size set can be made with just 1 skein!<\/p>\n

\"mb-polemonium\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One last thing: cake! I made this hummingbird cake (banana, pineapple, and pecans) for my grandma’s 86th birthday, which we celebrated yesterday. I really wanted it to look nice for her, so I piped roses on top – it came out great. I didn’t have quite enough frosting to do roses on the sides as well, so I just smoothed it out and added some chopped pecans around the bottom edge.<\/p>\n

\"hummingbird-cake-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hummingbird-cake-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I used this recipe from Joy of Baking<\/a>, but changed up the frosting a bit – I used equal parts butter and cream cheese, and a good amount of heavy cream (along with powdered sugar and vanilla). YUM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s catch up a bit! New Project: Top-down raglan I don’t think I shared here that I started a new sweater for myself, inspired by Ann and Kay’s “Bang out a sweater” knit along. I’m not knitting Mary Jane’s (lovely) Stopover, but instead one of my own design. It’s a top-down raglan wrap cardigan, worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,82,70,54,67,60,56,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-cooking","category-design","category-knitting","category-patterns","category-spinning","category-sweaters","category-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}