{"id":2340,"date":"2019-05-07T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:23:35","slug":"fo-marled-mania-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fo-marled-mania-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"FO: MARLED MANIA SWEATER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It took me about&#8230; four months? Five months? But I finished my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/marled-mania-cardigan\">Marled Mania Sweater by Westknits<\/a> back in January which was great because it was cold and this sweater is super warm and cozy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153750_Burst01-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153750_Burst01-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153750_Burst01-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153750_Burst01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the marling technique of holding two fingering weight yarns together. It&#8217;s super fun to blend yarns for an ombre or striped effect. For this project, most of the sweater was done holding a strand of wool with a strand of alpaca, so it&#8217;s really soft and cozy. Some sections had two strands of wool, but for the most part it was one of each. I believe there are 24 different yarns in there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153742_Burst01-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153742_Burst01-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153742_Burst01-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153742_Burst01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153736-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153736-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153736-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190222_153736.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan on knitting another of these as it was a huge project &#8211; both in size and time. But I am definitely going to utilize the new skills I learned making this for other projects. And it really opened my eyes to the versatility of Westknits projects &#8211; they may be unconventional in some respects, but they are a great learning tool! I cast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/penguono\">Penguono<\/a> recently and the construction is fascinating! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, more soon. <\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fo-marled-mania-sweater\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about&#8230; four months? Five months? But I finished my Marled Mania Sweater by Westknits back in January which was great because it was cold and this sweater is super warm and cozy! I love the marling technique of holding two fingering weight yarns together. It&#8217;s super fun to blend yarns for an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fo-marled-mania-sweater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FO: MARLED MANIA SWEATER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}