{"id":642,"date":"2015-08-11T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-08-11T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:41:47","slug":"vintage-inspiration-to-knit-a-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/11\/vintage-inspiration-to-knit-a-towel\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage inspiration to knit a towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The last blog post has been about vintage tea towel &#8211; not much to do with knitting, but I have used them to find inspiration to knit a towel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I love to take knitting with me at all time. Something you just leave and pick up again without any doubt on where you have to start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In other words; small and easy!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This summer I have been knitting dish clothes and small\u00a0towels in cotton and linen yarn with inspiration from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/vintage-treasure-hunt-part-4\/\">vintage tea towels<\/a>. I enjoy the coarse linen for my hands and in as dish cloths and I find great satisfaction in knitting them myself &#8211; just like my grandmother just to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I havn&#8217;t any knitting pattern &#8211; I just knit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Some of them with red stribes and some with a\u00a0checkerboard pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/foto-43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-643 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/foto-43-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Checkerboard knitting stitch. Scandinavian Knit\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><strong>Knitting Pattern &#8211; checkerboard<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">Knit 10 rows knit in the beginning and end of the towel<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">5 knit in the beginning and end of every row.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">1. row: 5 knit, 5 purl, 5 knit, 5 purl&#8230;..<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">2. row: 5 purl, 5 knit, 5 purl, 5 knit&#8230;.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">cont&#8230;.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">6. row:\u00a05 knit, 5 purl, 5 knit, 5 purl<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">7. row:\u00a05 purl, 5 knit, 5 purl, 5 knit&#8230;.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last blog post has been about vintage tea towel &#8211; not much to do with knitting, but I have used them to find inspiration to knit a towel.\u00a0 I love to take knitting with me at all time. Something you just leave and pick up again without any doubt on where you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting-en","category-linen-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}