{"id":460,"date":"2011-07-28T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-07-28T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:20:05","slug":"famous-knitter-or-just-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Famous Knitter or just Famous?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year at some point in our Maine sailing adventures we go out to Allen Island, a lovely getaway for the well known Wyeth family where they have very nicely placed a few moorings for visiting boaters to enjoy. \u00a0Last year I was thrilled when Betsy Wyeth arrived at the island and waved to me from her launch. \u00a0But this year’s visit topped even that. \u00a0Betsy sat outside her house with a basket of knitting; I sat aboard Pandora with my knitting. \u00a0We each sat knitting and watching the other knitting.<\/p>\n

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Knitting with Betsy Wyeth!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, \u00a0Where in the world were my Signature Arts knitting needles<\/a>? \u00a0At Allen Island, a rather private place only accessible to those with means of traveling on the water, where they rubbed shoulders with Betsy Wyeth’s needles!<\/p>\n

And, by the way, there are about 100 sheep on Allen Island….and it \u00a0is the spot where George Waymouth landed with his ship Archangel <\/em>in 1605.<\/p>\n

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Betsy (on left) knitting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that was the day I finished my “Garden Tank<\/a>” by Deborah Newton. \u00a0Deborah’s designs are extremely attractive and wearable for many body shapes which makes her one of my favorite knitwear designers!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What I love about this design: the simple lace pattern that does not overwhelm the sweater, the flattering boat neck, the A-line ‘swing’ shape, the armhole shaping, the way the lace creates a scalloped edge at the hem!<\/p>\n

In Interweave Knits the sweater was knitted with Manos del Uruguay “Serena” (60% alpaca, 40% cotton). \u00a0Now maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t alpaca one of the warmest<\/em> fibers? \u00a0So even with the addition of 40% cotton, wouldn’t this be too warm for a summer tank top? \u00a0I decided to use raw silk, and since this yarn has virtually no elasticity I made the top with zero ease. \u00a0I’m very happy with the fit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year at some point in our Maine sailing adventures we go out to Allen Island, a lovely getaway for the well known Wyeth family where they have very nicely placed a few moorings for visiting boaters to enjoy. \u00a0Last year I was thrilled when Betsy Wyeth arrived at the island and waved to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7,25,22],"tags":[40,53,52,57],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-knitting","category-sailing","category-yarn","tag-betsy-wyeth","tag-knitting","tag-sailing","tag-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}