{"id":15413,"date":"2015-10-07T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/wordpress\/?p=15413"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:57:12","slug":"stone-washed-sophie-yarn-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/15413","title":{"rendered":"Stone Washed Sophie: Yarn Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need another WIP like I need a hole in the head, but there are some projects that are just too hard to resist. \u00a0I planned to dial it back and try to get my WIP’s under control, but then I discovered\u00a0Sophie’s Universe<\/a>,\u00a0a CAL that was put on by Dedri<\/a>,\u00a0one of our\u00a0fellow Scheepjes bloggers. \u00a0I missed out on the CAL but after seeing the finished product, I had to do it, so all my plans of cutting back went straight out the window. \u00a0Blah blah, good intentions, blah blah… whatever… YARN!!<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to make the larger version (because I have a mad love affair with the Stone Washed<\/a> yarns), but hummed and hawed for a while over the colours. I came up with a few ideas, saw some that I liked on Ravelry (including a really stunning version done in only black, white, grey and red), but in the end I decided that there was just no beating the original combination<\/a> put together by Dedri. \u00a0So, I went with that!<\/p>\n

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I’m glad I went with this choice because there was something about every other combination I put together that didn’t work and I now realize that it’s that it wasn’t THIS combination. \u00a0I so wanted to be\u00a0original<\/em> and come up with something really fantastic, ya know? \u00a0Some combination that would bring the Sophie to an entirely new level and make me a superstar of the massive Sophie following, but yeah, that just wasn’t going to happen because there just simply isn’t a better combination to be made (in my opinion). \u00a0It makes me shake my fist at Dedri in envy of her\u00a0mad colour choosing skills. \u00a0I SHAKE MY FIST AT YOU, DEDRI!<\/em><\/p>\n

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CANADA JADE! \u00a0I know what you’re thinking – um, ok, who cares?! \u00a0Well, me, for one, because there’s something about being an expat that’s made me as excited as a six year old finding my name on a gas station keychain when I see “Canada” on things.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed these little tags on the newer Scheepjes yarns but they are so simple and genius, it makes you wonder how nobody has ever thought of it before. They are easy start tags that help you pull from the center of the\u00a0ball. \u00a0I hate using the yarn from the outside of the ball, as it causes it to flip and roll and eventually go off the sofa and get covered in dog hair, because I always put off vacuuming as long as humanly possible.<\/p>\n

Pulling from the middle can, if you are anything like me, often end in serious yarn vomit. \u00a0You wiggle your fingers around in there, thinking you’ve grabbed just the right place and then when you pull it out, you realise you were wrong… so, wrong.\u00a0 Yes, as I reread my previous sentence I am aware\u00a0that without context, that it could also sound<\/em>\u00a0so, so wrong! \u00a0Anyway, moving on! \u00a0This little tag helps you avoid all of that mess by giving you something to make it easier to find that end. \u00a0 You grab for the paper rather than blinding wiggling your fingers around in hopes of grabbing the right strand of yarn. \u00a0Pretty clever, right?<\/p>\n

I’ve been making good progress on my Sophie, but I had to put it down in order to finish other projects. \u00a0People say it’s addictive and they aren’t kidding, I could have happily crocheted away at it until it was finished… and I’m not even that big of a crochet lover. \u00a0I’ll be back with photos of my progress as soon as I whittle down my WIP pile a little (just leave me to my pipedreams, please)!<\/p>\n

<\/i>\n\t\t\tYarn Info<\/strong>: Scheepjes Stone Washed XL
\n<\/a>Colours:\u00a0<\/strong>23 x Moon Stone,\u00a03 each x Amazonite, Green Agate, Blue Apatite, Lemon Quartz, Deep Amethyst, Garnet, Corundum Ruby and Coral,\u00a06 x Canada Jade<\/p>\n

You can buy this yarn at any of the Scheepjes retailers found here<\/a>\u00a0as well as internationally via\u00a0Wool Warehouse<\/a>*.\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n

This post was made in coordination with Scheepjes. All work, photos, thoughts and opinions are my own.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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I need another WIP like I need a hole in the head, but there are some projects that are just too hard to resist. \u00a0I planned to dial it back and try to get my WIP’s under control, but then I discovered\u00a0Sophie’s Universe,\u00a0a CAL that was put on by Dedri,\u00a0one of our\u00a0fellow Scheepjes bloggers. \u00a0I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55,75,801,892,864,815],"class_list":["post-15413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","tag-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-scheepjes","tag-sophie","tag-stone-washed","tag-stone-washed-xl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15413"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16220,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions\/16220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}