{"id":798,"date":"2010-11-11T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:54:06","slug":"contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2010\/11\/11\/contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everybody,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all who commented on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2010\/10\/23\/1000-fabulous-hats\/\">1000 Fabulous Knit Hats<\/a> post. Commenter #14, Colleen, was the lucky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">randomly-generated<\/a> winner.<\/p>\n<p>Since we all have hats on the brain now, (or on the head in my case, winter is in effect here in Eugene) I&#8217;d like to mention my next hat project&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At my LYS the hot trend at the moment is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straw.com\/cpy\/yarns\/mini-mochi-balls.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mini Mochi<\/a> yarns from Crystal Palace, knit into the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straw.com\/cpy\/patterns2\/accessories\/MMochi-fairisle-hat-mittens.html\">Fair Isle Hat<\/a> that was designed to take advantage of its luminous, slow-striping colors. The question appears to be not <em>will you<\/em> knit this hat, but <em>how many<\/em> of them will you knit &#8211; there are SO MANY CHOICES. I asked PR, one of the regulars around the shop table who has knit 4 mini mochi hats so far, for advice in choosing colors and she suggested going for contrasts &#8211; once they are blended by the stranded knitting, the effect will be the most stunning with a pair of yarns that may not appear particularly harmonious at the outset.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stash_Mini_Mochi by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/5167257886\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4046\/5167257886_32f52d87c2.jpg\" alt=\"Stash_Mini_Mochi\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overwhelmed, I went with my gut and grabbed these two. I&#8217;m excited to see how they blend and play off each other.<\/p>\n<p>Happy knitting, friends, and keep warm!<\/p>\n<p>KT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everybody, Thanks to all who commented on the 1000 Fabulous Knit Hats post. Commenter #14, Colleen, was the lucky <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}