{"id":18160,"date":"2023-11-20T23:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18160"},"modified":"2023-11-22T23:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T22:18:03","slug":"daily_3201_-_blocking_another_half-done_cardigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/daily_3201_-_blocking_another_half-done_cardigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3201 &#8211; blocking another half-done cardigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3201_blocking.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOn weekdays, I simply knit. Sometimes I have more attention to give to the work, sometimes less. But I generally don&#8217;t deal with complications, like measuring or making important decisions. Those are for weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I blocked this half-done cardigan to see if it might fit. The gauge swatch I knitted relaxed a lot when wetted, so I wanted to check this one before continuing with fiddly bits like buttonholes and sleeves. Seems OK, although I&#8217;m not sure about the neckline construction, or the width of the sleeves. I have to finish the neckline before I can reasonably evaluate it, though, and same for the sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>I invested in a set of foam mats for blocking, instead of pinning things to folded-up bath towels. Felt very nice, much more stable and easy to work with.<\/p>\n<p>There are KnitPro foam mats you can buy for about 400 kr. You can hear from the name alone how pro they would be. Or you can buy a children&#8217;s play mat, identical in size and material, for half the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On weekdays, I simply knit. Sometimes I have more attention to give to the work, sometimes less. But I generally don&#8217;t deal with complications, like measuring or making important decisions. Those are for weekends. Yesterday I blocked this half-done cardigan to see if it might fit. The gauge swatch I knitted relaxed a lot when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160","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=18160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18165,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18160\/revisions\/18165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}