{"id":92,"date":"2008-12-21T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/learning\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T20:55:44","slug":"learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps &#8212; just <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">perhaps<\/span> &#8212; I<br \/>\nam learning.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/just-a-little-tweak\/\">previously<br \/>\nobserved<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/knitting-design-perils\/\">more<br \/>\nthan one occasion<\/a>, that I really should swatch for colours and<br \/>\npattern realities before I embark on a project.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now playing with some ideas for a multicolour, textured sweater in<br \/>\nRowan Cocoon (chunky merino\/kid mohair).&nbsp; I bought the yarn with<br \/>\nan eye to colours that played nicely together, but realized I should<br \/>\nget some sense of what the best combinations are (for hue as well as<br \/>\nvalue) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">before<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span>I<br \/>\nget too far along in the design process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px;\" alt=\"colour and texture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/Learning\/IMG_0966-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px;\" alt=\"colour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/Learning\/IMG_0965-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was just playing around &#8212; I haven&#8217;t really thought about what<br \/>\nmotifs I want to use (for colour or texture), but it&#8217;s quite clear that<br \/>\nthe maroon and dark brown are pretty &#8220;subtle&#8221; together.&nbsp; &#8220;Subtle&#8221;<br \/>\nwould be a code word for &#8220;bad idea&#8221; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; But, the maroon would go<br \/>\nwell with the base colour, and might even play off the teal<br \/>\nnicely.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see what happens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps &#8212; just perhaps &#8212; I am learning. I have previously observed, on more than one occasion, that I really should swatch for colours and pattern realities before I embark on a project. I&#8217;m now playing with some ideas for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/21\/learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7dQdt-learning","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}