{"id":1046,"date":"2007-01-19T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T01:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/goodies-from-alaska\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T01:12:43","slug":"goodies-from-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/goodies-from-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodies from Alaska!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the fabulous mitten kit that arrived this afternoon!  <a href=\"http:\/\/hickorieswanderings.blogspot.com\/\">Rebecca<\/a> really put together a wonderful kit:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2007\/kmks_received.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2007\/kmks_received.php','popup','width=600,height=351,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2007\/kmks_received-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"263\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I *love* the blue and orange combination of both the bag and the yarn &#8211; it&#8217;s not something I would have ever thought to put together myself, but it&#8217;s so perfect!  (After all, they&#8217;re two of my favorite colors, why have I never put them together?)  It will also go wonderfully with my blue winter coat.  The yarn is an alpaca and silk blend.  It is so incredibly soft and wonderful, I might just have to pet it for a while before I knit it up.  I&#8217;ll have to think about how I&#8217;d like to do the mittens, since the included pattern is a great basic mitten pattern which leaves a lot of options for customization.  Stripes?  Fair isle?  The possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>Also in this package are several packets of peppermint hot chocolate, a couple of polar bear smooches (which Denis tried to make off with but I insisted they had to be photographed first), and some lovely beaded stitch markers (blue and orange, of course!) made by Rebecca&#8217;s sister Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>What a great package!  Thanks, Rebecca!  I&#8217;m off to go drink some fabulously yummy-sounding peppermint cocoa and pet my new yarn for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the fabulous mitten kit that arrived this afternoon! Rebecca really put together a wonderful kit: I *love* the blue and orange combination of both the bag and the yarn &#8211; it&#8217;s not something I would have ever thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit-mitten-kit-swap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}