{"id":1893,"date":"2012-08-14T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2012-08-11T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T16:33:40","slug":"secret-project-malabrigo-or-not-loafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Secret project ~ malabrigo (or not) loafers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malabrigo Loafers<\/a> by cocoknits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Started:30th June 2012
\nFirst one finished 1st July 2012. Failed to make a note of when the second one was finished *sigh*. Here’s my Ravelry link<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"finished<\/a><\/p>\n

Made with King Cole Fashion Aran, shade 369 (dark teal) for Lorna’s 40th birthday present… (Lorna is a friend I met when we were both in the first year at High School. I could pretend to hide her age, but what’s the point…) The yarn is used doubled throughout, hence you buy two balls and use about half of each of them. I have yet to weight the left-overs, but I’m pretty sure I have enough to make myself another pair.<\/p>\n

I chose this pattern because it was in Lorna’s favourites<\/a>. I’m hoping she liked the look of the finished article as well as looking forward to the challenge of making the slippers… I also got non-slip sole thingies as Lorna & Matthias have quite a few shiny floors, and I don’t want to be accused of trying to bump her off (literally). The one thing I needed to be aware of, however, is that synthetic yarns and medium-hot irons don’t mix that well. I like to think I’ve just hastened the process of the sole stitches being a bit flatter.<\/p>\n

\"underside<\/a><\/p>\n

In more positive comments, these were super-quick to make and not technically hard. I made a large proportion of these while watching the modern version of The Poseidon Adventure<\/em>. Not quite up to the classic original, but still plenty of claustrophobia. On the screen, where I like it.<\/p>\n

The buttons were also from knit-wise, my LYS – I had bought one to go on another secret project which I’ve since decided is better without fripperies, so I got another one to go with it, and have added them here. Where they count less as fripperies, and more as accents.<\/p>\n

Feedback is that they have gone down well. Now to make myself a pair…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malabrigo Loafers by cocoknits. Started:30th June 2012 First one finished 1st July 2012. Failed to make a note of when the second one was finished *sigh*. Here’s my Ravelry link… Made with King Cole Fashion Aran, shade 369 (dark teal) … Continue reading →<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-so-sos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}