{"id":17507,"date":"2023-07-22T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17507"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:29:41","slug":"daily_3085_-_shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/07\/22\/daily_3085_-_shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3085 &#8211; shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3085_shawl_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finished the shawl I&#8217;ve been knitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/daily_2889_-_knitting_decisions\/\"> &#8211; since January, apparently<\/a>. But really it&#8217;s been mostly finished for well over a month, if not more. I just needed to add the last bit of edging, bind off, weave in the ends and block. Which, in a burst of productivity, I finally finished today. Feels good.<\/p>\n<p>Sprayed and pinned to towel-covered sofa cushions for blocking. Naturally Nysse saw this as a chance to appropriate the whole thing as yet another cat bed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3085_shawl_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3085_shawl_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shawl is based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/the-early-blossoms\">Early Blossoms<\/a> pattern on Ravelry. I liked the pattern. It was easy to follow, perfect as background knitting, and easy to adjust &#8211; I think I added one extra red patch and made another one slightly larger. And the result is pretty stylish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3085_shawl_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even with blocking, mine didn&#8217;t come out strictly triangular, which I think may have been the original intent. Perhaps I could force it into shape but I don&#8217;t want to be too forceful with the alpaca yarn. And it really won&#8217;t matter since I&#8217;m going to be draping it over my shoulders anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3085_shawl_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the shawl I&#8217;ve been knitting &#8211; since January, apparently. But really it&#8217;s been mostly finished for well over a month, if not more. I just needed to add the last bit of edging, bind off, weave in the ends and block. Which, in a burst of productivity, I finally finished today. Feels good. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17517,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions\/17517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}