{"id":1086,"date":"2012-03-31T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2012-03-31T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:17:09","slug":"nearing-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Nearing the end."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the longest project I&#8217;ve ever worked on without taking a break from it. I cast on Ella in mid January, two and a half months ago. But the end is (almost) in sight.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100166-001.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100166-001.html','popup','width=768,height=1024,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100166-001-thumb.JPG\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n(Bad model pose, no makeup!)<br \/>\nWhat happens though, is that you get up to the ruffles and think to yourself &#8220;Hooray, just the ruffles, and I&#8217;m done!!&#8217;<br \/>\nJust.The.Ruffles.<br \/>\nMy God, the ruffles. You have all those stitches for the skirt, then you double them. Then you purl back, then you do another increase row, increasing into every second stitch.<br \/>\nThen you do a picot cast off. Cast on 2, cast off 3. The neverending ruffles. The skirt hem alone took two days to cast off. But it was done. Then I started on the front placket ruffles. I almost wish I&#8217;d done plain plackets, but I know it&#8217;ll all be worth it, if I ever finish.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100243.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100243.html','popup','width=767,height=1024,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100243-thumb.JPG\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nOne down, one to go.<br \/>\nAnd this week I had a happy realisation. I&#8217;d bought myself a new Inoui winter scarf. And totally unintentionally, it matches my Ella!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100245.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100245.html','popup','width=1024,height=768,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/P1100245-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nMeant to be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the longest project I&#8217;ve ever worked on without taking a break from it. I cast on Ella in mid January, two and a half months ago. But the end is (almost) in sight. (Bad model pose, no makeup!) What happens though, is that you get up to the ruffles and think to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}