{"id":21656,"date":"2026-01-03T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21656"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:53:27","slug":"daily_3958_-_finished_the_knitted_dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/daily_3958_-_finished_the_knitted_dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3958 – finished the knitted dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the white dress in all its glory.<\/p>\n

It came out just the way I had envisioned it. Fits well, looks great. By far the most elegant thing I have created.<\/p>\n

And the most labour-intensive one. I tried to roughly estimate how many stitches I knit, and came up with about 133 000.<\/p>\n

I am very grateful to my friend in Estonia who gave me the yarn that started this project. It’s a lovely fine vintage wool yarn, probably hand-spun and unbleached. I don’t think I could have found anything like it from a commercial source. I held it double with a silk mohair, and the end result is soft and woolly, but still drapes well.<\/p>\n

This is no superwash merino yarn, the kind that almost doesn’t feel like wool, and it definitely feels woolly against my skin. Not so that bothers me – just so that I am aware of it. Like a gentle reminder that it is there, and it is wool. (I’m writing this several weeks later, after I’ve had a chance to wear it to a family Christmas party for several hours.)<\/p>\n

I had planned to add embroidery to the dress, to make it look less stark. Now that I have it in front of me, I rather like it in all its simplicity. I think I’ll hold off on the embroidery for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the white dress in all its glory. It came out just the way I had envisioned it. Fits well, looks great. By far the most elegant thing I have created. And the most labour-intensive one. I tried to roughly estimate how many stitches I knit, and came up with about 133 000. I […]<\/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-21656","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\/21656","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=21656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21739,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21656\/revisions\/21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}