{"id":254,"date":"2003-11-18T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/yarn-temptation\/"},"modified":"2003-11-18T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T02:57:09","slug":"yarn-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/yarn-temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarn Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need help!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elann.com\">Elann<\/a> has a new yarn on their site, Sierra, which is a wool\/alpaca blend&#8230;  I&#8217;ve been dying to knit the Green Mountain Gardens cardigan from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitpicks.com\/lobby.asp?WCI=Item_Display&#038;itemid=30426&#038;prodType=Book\">Green Mountain Spinnery book<\/a>, but their yarn (while lovely) is <i>way<\/i> expensive&#8230;and I think this would make a good substitute, assuming I can come up with a colorway that works with the colors of the yarn available.  The Eggplant and Plumberry shades are calling me&#8230;as are Spruce, and Ocean, and Mid and Dark Indigo.<\/p>\n<p>Should I?  Can I really justify buying another sweaters&#8217; worth of yarn, when I have a fair isle vest and another sweater I haven&#8217;t even started yet?  It&#8217;s such a good price, and such gorgeous colors.<\/p>\n<p>Help!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need help! Elann has a new yarn on their site, Sierra, which is a wool\/alpaca blend&#8230; I&#8217;ve been dying to knit the Green Mountain Gardens cardigan from the Green Mountain Spinnery book, but their yarn (while lovely) is way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}