{"id":80,"date":"2008-12-01T22:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/camel-sighting-blacks-harbour-nb\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:41:36","slug":"camel-sighting-blacks-harbour-nb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/camel-sighting-blacks-harbour-nb\/","title":{"rendered":"Camel Sighting &#8212; Blacks Harbour, NB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not a dromedary &#8212; camel &amp; silk blend (YUMMM!) from <a href=\"http:\/\/handmaiden.ca\/\">Hand Maiden Yarns<\/a> (&#8220;Camelspin&#8221;, 70%<br \/>\nSilk, 30% Camel), purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketcove.com\/\">Cricket<br \/>\nCove<\/a> in Blacks Harbour, NB.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 667px;\" alt=\"camel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/CamelSighting\/IMG_0906-blog.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t know how many times we&#8217;ve driven by that store and not been<br \/>\nable to stop in &#8212; either we&#8217;re rushing to catch the ferry to Grand<br \/>\nManan, or just off the early ferry <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">from<\/span><br \/>\nGrand Manan and the store isn&#8217;t open, or&#8230; Finally, yesterday, the<br \/>\nstars aligned and we had the chance to stop in.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a delightful store &#8212; lots of great yarn in a variety of brands<br \/>\nand types;&nbsp; nice handknits.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As usual &#8212; my eye lead me to many things, but my fingers got me in<br \/>\ntrouble:&nbsp; one touch of this yarn and I was done for.&nbsp; It&#8217;s<br \/>\nvery soft.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I did make progress on my current knitting projects on the trip.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a new sock project going, and if I could ever figure out how<br \/>\nto make the diamond pattern (used once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2008-SeaWool-MossSocks\/SeaWool-MossSocks.html\">here<\/a>)<br \/>\nwork properly in the round, I&#8217;d be on my way to having a first sock<br \/>\ncompleted.&nbsp; Promises, promises.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not a dromedary &#8212; camel &amp; silk blend (YUMMM!) from Hand Maiden Yarns (&#8220;Camelspin&#8221;, 70% Silk, 30% Camel), purchased at Cricket Cove in Blacks Harbour, NB. I don&#8217;t know how many times we&#8217;ve driven by that store and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/camel-sighting-blacks-harbour-nb\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-1i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}