{"id":2549,"date":"2012-04-15T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2012-04-14T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T16:48:58","slug":"the-great-yarn-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"The Great Yarn Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m back from digging through my stash for two-ply yarn to use for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/chrysanthemum-frutescens-socks\" target=\"_blank\">Chrysanthemums.<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>I have Madline Tosh Merino Light in Fathom and Winter Wheat (this is actually 4 ply &#8211; hmm. I guess Tosh sock yarn is 2-ply).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fathom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fathom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fathom\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fathom-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fathom-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Fathom.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WinterWheat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WinterWheat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Madeline Tosh Merino Light Winter Wheat\" title=\"WinterWheat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WinterWheat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WinterWheat-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WinterWheat.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>I have some Malabrigo sock yarn in Violeta Africana (this is 3 ply, but I love it!).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Violeta-Africana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Violeta-Africana-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Violeta Africana\" title=\"Violeta Africana\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Violeta-Africana-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Violeta-Africana.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Found this Handwerks So-soft Milkweed (The color is good, but it&#8217;s 4 ply&#8230;and it is so soft because it has cashmere, so it might be fuzzy).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Milkweed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Milkweed-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Milkweed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Milkweed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Milkweed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Milkweed.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>OR I have Dragonfly Fibers Sock Yarn in Deep Ocean (rats, this is 4 ply also)&#8230;..hmmm.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2180-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2180\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2180-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_2180.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Ok. I just looked up my socks with the best stitch definition. They are out of 4-ply Shibui Knits Sock AND 4 ply Barking Dogs Achilles. So, maybe I don&#8217;t get that hung up on how many plies there are after all.<br \/>\n<br \/>After seeing this picture on <a href=\"http:\/\/theaddknitter.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/selbu-modern-malabrigo-sock-yarn-and-i.html\" target=\"_blank\">the A.D.D. knitter&#8217;s blog<\/a>, I&#8217;m leaning Malabrigo.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/VioletaAfricana-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sock by A.D.D Knitter\" title=\"VioletaAfricana\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/VioletaAfricana-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/VioletaAfricana.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Which color do you like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;m back from digging through my stash for two-ply yarn to use for my Chrysanthemums. I have Madline Tosh Merino Light in Fathom and Winter Wheat (this is actually 4 ply &#8211; hmm. I guess Tosh sock yarn is 2-ply). I have some Malabrigo sock yarn in Violeta Africana (this is 3 ply, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,61,60],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-chrysanthemum-socks","tag-madeline-tosh","tag-malabrigo"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}