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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>In my post last Spring, “The Problem with Knitting”<\/a>, I mentioned my very first attempt at a cowl or smoke ring.\u00a0 It was made with Noro yarn.\u00a0 Beautiful colors, but anyone who has worked with Noro knows that it’s texture leaves something to be desired.\u00a0 Since both of my new cowls are working out quite well this winter, I decided to pull apart that first smoke ring and find something else to do with that beautiful Noro.\u00a0 I was admiring some beautiful West African Baskets at Costco this Christmas, made out of recycled materials, when it hit me.\u00a0 There \"\"<\/a>was no reason I couldn’t make that style of basket with yarn.\u00a0 And no one really cares if a bowl is soft to the touch, so the Noro was a great choice.\u00a0 I made two of these and gave them both away for Christmas.\u00a0 I have since made another, this time using a novelty home spun that I had dyed when I was practicing dying techniques.\u00a0 This project is a great stash-buster, as a 50 gram skein makes a nice sized bowl.\u00a0 I am going to be teaching a class on how to make these soon.\u00a0 Hopefully I’ll be motivated enough to create a tutorial.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my post last Spring, “The Problem with Knitting”, I mentioned my very first attempt at a cowl or smoke ring.\u00a0 It was made with Noro yarn.\u00a0 Beautiful colors, but anyone who has worked with Noro knows that it’s texture leaves something to be desired.\u00a0 Since both of my new cowls are working out quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baskets"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/norobasket4.jpg?fit=700%2C550&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/norobasket4.jpg?fit=700%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-hl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":774,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/ratta-tat-tat-part-i\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":0},"title":"Ratta Tat Tat (Part I)","author":"admin","date":"March 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the passion for this week, (or actually two weeks ago, since I am running a few weeks behind in posting) is tatting.\u00a0 Inspired by the pattern for the paper roses that I posted around Valentine's Day, I decided to try a tatting a rose. 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