{"id":131,"date":"2007-04-13T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/finished-shawl\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T18:28:00","slug":"finished-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/finished-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all the excitement of dying the yarn, I’m afraid I disregarded all current works-in-progress and jumped straight into knitting a little shawl with it. Progress wasn’t actually that fast, but that is mostly due to the fact that I had to stop and admire it at the end of each row \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Since I wasn’t sure how far my yarn would go I opted for a simple triangle starting in the centre back neck and increasing at each edge and twice in the middle on every other row. I went for garter stitch since I like scarves to be reversible, although I suppose it is less essential on a shawl. I also added a simple lace tree pattern I designed. Although as Diane<\/a> pointed out the trees are actually upside down when you are wearing the shawl. Oh well, I like it anyway \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So now onto the delight that is blocking!<\/p>\n

First we have a shawl in its unblocked state, looking not very lacy and rather wobbly round the edges:<\/p>\n

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And as if by magic with the addition of a few million pins, ta da:<\/p>\n

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A gratuitous close-up of my upside down trees:<\/p>\n

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And even closer – you can tell I am enjoying this can’t you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This is being blocked on my new super adjustable blocking system, otherwise known as a set of foam recreation mats<\/a> for 3-8 year olds from the Early Learning Centre<\/a> . They are 60cm (2 foot) square and fit together like big jigsaw pieces. They come in packs of 4 and I bought 2 packs so I think that will be sufficient to create shapes to block just about anything I can think of. Also they fit down the back of the spare bed when not in use, very handy.<\/div>\n
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And, finally the shots of me wearing the new shawl:<\/p>\n

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I was worried that it would be too titchy to be of any use and was very pleasantly surprised. It is a pretty good size, not bad considering it is only 100g of 4ply weight cotton.<\/p>\n

I’m afraid I appear to be pulling a strange face in the next one. I am probably instructing the photographer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Now I am going to be good and go back to all the abandoned projects, and also do my City and Guilds<\/a> homework before the night before (next class is a week on sunday, I have already done half of the knitting part of the homework). <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After all the excitement of dying the yarn, I’m afraid I disregarded all current works-in-progress and jumped straight into knitting a little shawl with it. Progress wasn’t actually that fast, but that is mostly due to the fact that I had to stop and admire it at the end of each row \ud83d\ude42 Since I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}