{"id":15988,"date":"2017-02-04T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/wordpress\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:19:37","slug":"do-you-have-wanderlust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/15988","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Wanderlust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do! I do!\u00a0A while back I was sent some of the purples range of Scheepjes new Wanderlust<\/a> yarns to play with and they are super pretty. I immediately knew which ones I liked best (the two on the right<\/del>\u00a0oops, left!) and started hatching a plan for\u00a0what to make.<\/p>\n

\"\" Left to right: Rio de Janeiro (453), Las Vegas (458), Paris (466), Havana (454), Chicago (465)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Left to right:\u00a0Paris (466), Chicago (465), Rio de Janeiro (453), Las Vegas (458)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an incredibly soft 100% acrylic yarn which comes in 19 different self striping colour combinations. You can see the full details in the Scheepjes poster below:<\/p>\n

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As I was messing about with this yarn, I came up with an idea I really wanted to make with it. I’ve been trying out a lot of different stitches lately as I am eager to learn more and see how a lot of the stitches I like work. I figured one way to put them to good use is to use it to test out some of these new yarns. I knew right away what one I wanted to try with this yarn and after a few rows, I was in love. I won’t share that just yet, but I will share the yarn I chose to use.<\/p>\n

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I went with Rio de Janeiro (453) as it just stood out to me from the start. Actually, that’s sort of a lie, I also very nearly went for Las Vegas (458) but the Rio won out in the end, because I love the colour combinations\u00a0and I’m a huge fan of purple and green together. I ordered a few extra balls, as I’m pretty sure my idea will take at least three in the end, but I wanted to make sure I had enough in case I decide to add to it later.<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, in the bigger picture, I’m not a huge fan of acrylic yarns. Not because I’m a yarn snob, that’s not it at all. I couldn’t give a toss if something is made of acrylic, wool, cotton, bamboo, or even dog hair, as long as it looks and feels nice. In my experience, most acrylic yarn has a squeaky feeling that makes my teeth itch, I just can’t stand it. This doesn’t have that, though, thank gawd. It’s really soft and I’m able to knit with it for a long time without getting that nails on a chalkboard feeling I’ve gotten from some other acrylics.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s what’s going on here at the moment! Chilling out in front of the fire and working on this new project. I haven’t forgotten some I’ve mentioned previously, and they are still on the agenda, but I got sidetracked, what can I say… if you’ve been around here long enough you know I’m absolutely crap with deadlines!<\/p>\n

I should have some sneak peeks of this project soon. Until then, if you want to check out Wanderlust for yourself, you can get your hands on it internationally via\u00a0WoolWarehouse<\/a>*\u00a0or your local\u00a0Scheepjes retailer<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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

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I do! I do!\u00a0A while back I was sent some of the purples range of Scheepjes new Wanderlust yarns to play with and they are super pretty. I immediately knew which ones I liked best (the two on the right\u00a0oops, left!) and started hatching a plan for\u00a0what to make. Left to right: Rio de Janeiro …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,897],"tags":[55,895,82,801,912],"class_list":["post-15988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","category-designs","tag-crafts","tag-designing","tag-knitting","tag-scheepjes","tag-wanderlust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988","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=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16210,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/16210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}