{"id":21869,"date":"2026-02-18T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21869"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:27:37","slug":"daily_4004_-_started_a_shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/02\/18\/daily_4004_-_started_a_shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4004 – started a shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Knitting club Wednesday. I didn’t want to bring a sock – sock knitting is for commutes and meetings and flights – and the striped sweater is in time-out because I don’t feel like it, so I started a shawl.<\/p>\n

The yarn I bought online some time ago. Maybe the colour wasn’t exactly like I imagined from the photos, but it’s still quite pretty (better in daylight than in this late-night lamplight) and feels very, very nice. Some combination of merino wool, silk and cashmere, according to the description. It’s an unplied yarn, if it can even be called “a yarn”: it’s an unplied bundle of eight very, very thin threads, thinner even than sewing thread. Some are red and some are purple, and they’re probably all made of different fibres. It’s tricky to knit with, easy to miss some of the threads with the needle – definitely not something I could knit without looking at what I’m doing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knitting club Wednesday. I didn’t want to bring a sock – sock knitting is for commutes and meetings and flights – and the striped sweater is in time-out because I don’t feel like it, so I started a shawl. The yarn I bought online some time ago. Maybe the colour wasn’t exactly like I imagined […]<\/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-21869","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\/21869","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=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21872,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions\/21872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}