{"id":155,"date":"2011-07-11T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=155"},"modified":"2012-03-18T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T03:00:40","slug":"who-in-the-world-is-mr-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2011\/07\/who-in-the-world-is-mr-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Who in the world is Mr. A?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re basing this on votes, 64% of you seem to choose based on hair compatibility and likeness to anime. Well, you guys are right. Here&#8217;s a more anime-esque photo from our trip to Iceland in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"J\u00c3\u00b6kuls\u00c3\u00a1rl\u00c3\u00b3n, Iceland by knit cookie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/knit_cookie\/3291038505\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3597\/3291038505_da68af49f6.jpg\" alt=\"J\u00c3\u00b6kuls\u00c3\u00a1rl\u00c3\u00b3n, Iceland\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be February, but no it was not that cold in Iceland. He&#8217;s overdressed. And in case you were wondering what\u00c2\u00a0 sort of product he uses to get his hair to stand up like that, there is no product. It just does that.<\/p>\n<p>So the winner of the contest is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyodstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kerrie<\/a>! She wins two skeins of Socktopus Sokkusu yarn which is currently only available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopyewe.com\/browse\/yarn\/socktopus\/sokkusu-original\" target=\"_blank\">The Loopy Ewe<\/a> in the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loisivethe.com\/in-the-shop\/sokkusu-original-de-socktopus\" target=\"_blank\">L\u00e2\u20ac\u2122OisiveTh\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> in Paris, and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitnation.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knit Nation<\/a> marketplace in London this weekend. I snagged three skeins when I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socktopus.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Socktopus <\/a>studio yesterday: two for our lucky winner and one for myself. I was too distracted in the studio to take photos of the prize yarn, but I will do so tomorrow. Here&#8217;s what I was looking at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" title=\"Pretty yarn\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0381-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0381-500x299.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0381-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0378.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-157\" title=\"Sokkusu yarn\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0378-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0378-500x299.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0378-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only was I surrounded by pretty yarns everywhere, but the view was of a lovely canal. And what was going by?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG03821.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-159\" title=\"Pirate boat\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG03821-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG03821-500x299.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG03821-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pirate-club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-160\" title=\"pirate club\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pirate-club-500x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pirate-club-500x345.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pirate-club.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it says &#8220;Pirate Viscount&#8221; and &#8220;Pirate Club&#8221; on that boat. Does that make it a genuine pirate ship? That is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>After a day of inhaling yarn fumes, we headed out to the V&amp;A for a bit of culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161\" title=\"Yohji exhibit\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0387-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0387-500x299.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0387-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately photos were not allowed, but the clothing certainly did not disappoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re basing this on votes, 64% of you seem to choose based on hair compatibility and likeness to anime. Well, you guys are right. Here&#8217;s a more anime-esque photo from our trip to Iceland in 2009. It might be February, but no it was not that cold in Iceland. He&#8217;s overdressed. And in case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}