{"id":1017,"date":"2010-06-30T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2010-11-09T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T00:56:52","slug":"go-alasdair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/go-alasdair\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Alasdair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alasdair Post-Quinn over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistcollective.com\/collection\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/35-features\/452-an-introduction-to-double-knitting-the-four-winds-hat\">Twist Collective<\/a> made a tutorial which&#8211;yes, is a little precious and slow but also&mdash;is rawther comprehensive regarding an elegant cast on for Double Knitting color work.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 425px; height: 344px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQpsC1FKGrU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#010101\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQpsC1FKGrU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed style=\"width: 425px; height: 344px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQpsC1FKGrU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" bgcolor=\"#010101\" wmode=\"transparent\" quality=\"high\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GQpsC1FKGrU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Add to that the very clear tutorial at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittinghelp.com\/videos\/advanced-techniques\">KnittingHelp.com<\/a> (scroll down for the &#8220;Double Knitting&#8221; video link near the bottom of the page) and you&#8217;ll have learned a ton in under 20 minutes. (Plus Alasdair&#8217;s pattern is gorgeous!)<\/p>\n<p>Then get a copy of <em>Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously<\/em> by Adrienne Martini (thanks Meg!)  \u00a0and pat yourself on the back for only having go so far as to attempt double knitting rather than a Starmore Tudor Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Resist the Tudor.<\/p>\n<p>RESIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alasdair Post-Quinn over at the Twist Collective made a tutorial which&#8211;yes, is a little precious and slow but also&mdash;is rawther comprehensive regarding an elegant cast on for Double Knitting color work. Add to that the very clear tutorial at KnittingHelp.com (scroll down for the &#8220;Double Knitting&#8221; video link near the bottom of the page) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,90],"tags":[510,49,41,505,515],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-knitting","category-tutorial","tag-blog-fun","tag-crafty","tag-knit","tag-knitting","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}