{"id":933,"date":"2009-09-14T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:33:53","slug":"marble-chunky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/09\/marble-chunky\/","title":{"rendered":"Marble Chunky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the look of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/james-c-brett-marble-chunky\">James Brett&#8217;s Marble Chunky<\/a>. The colourways are absolutely gorgeous. So when K asked if he could have a new winter sweater, I took him down to my <abbr title=\"Local Yarn Store\">LYS<\/abbr> (which is anything but local) and asked him to chose a colour.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, he opted for a red\/pink\/orange colourway. I added 100gms of plain black to the 2 skeins of Marble (200gms each) and we had enough for a kid&#8217;s shirt-collar sweater.<\/p>\n<p>Having completed the sweater, I still had more than 100gms left of the Marble. So I also made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/quant\">Quant<\/a> (my favourite hat\/headband) and a matching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/2-row-reversible-scarf\">reversible scarf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve been that impressed with Marble Chunky. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. The colours are wonderful and the yardage is fantastic but I&#8217;ve a feeling it will pill and tend to lose it&#8217;s shape with time.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-933 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/09\/marble-chunky\/reversible-scarf\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/reversible-scarf-150x112.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/reversible-scarf-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/reversible-scarf-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/reversible-scarf.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/09\/marble-chunky\/kais-jumper\/'><img width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kais-jumper-112x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kais-jumper-112x150.png 112w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kais-jumper-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kais-jumper.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/09\/marble-chunky\/red-quant\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"111\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/red-quant-150x111.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/red-quant-150x111.png 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/red-quant-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/red-quant.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the look of James Brett&#8217;s Marble Chunky. The colourways are absolutely gorgeous. So when K asked if he could have a new winter sweater, I took him down to my LYS (which is anything but local) and asked him to chose a colour. Surprisingly, he opted for a red\/pink\/orange colourway. I added 100gms of plain black to the 2 skeins of Marble (200gms each) and we had enough for a kid&#8217;s shirt-collar sweater. Having completed the sweater, I still had more than 100gms left of the Marble. So I also made a Quant (my favourite hat\/headband) and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[76,27,19,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}