{"id":444,"date":"2005-11-15T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=444"},"modified":"2005-11-15T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T11:26:57","slug":"444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Shawl 2 done.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_5953.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_5953.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"264\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty pleased with it, but I have a few issues with the construction. First you knit a triangle from the point up (The centre triangle), then you cast off and pick up stitches along the two sides of the triangle. The cast off edge becomes part of the top of the shawl. I found that even though I cast off quite loosely, it was still too tight for me to block as aggressively as I would&#8217;ve liked.<br \/>\nMy other personal beef with this shawl is that we were originally told we&#8217;d need 1200 yards of laceweight. We only used around 600. I already had the yarn, so it wasn&#8217;t so much of an issue, but if I&#8217;d bought yarn especially for the project, i&#8217;d be pretty pissed.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the Mystery Shawl 2, from the yahoo group. I knit it in Knitpicks &#8220;Shimmer&#8221; in the Morning Mist colourway, which I overdyed with some landscapes dye in the colour &#8220;Opal&#8221;. I really like the Shimmer, but I&#8217;m not so keen on the colourways, I think there is too much contrast for lace.<br \/>\nI used 3.5mm needles, and I&#8217;m pretty happy with the tension.<br \/>\nSo, it&#8217;s back to the Vanalinn Gloves. The first one is nearly done, so it&#8217;s not a huge amount of work until I have another finished item.<br \/>\nTwinkie gets a little impatient for her dinner sometimes.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_5954.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_5954.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nYou think she&#8217;d know by now that her dinner lands there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Shawl 2 done. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it, but I have a few issues with the construction. First you knit a triangle from the point up (The centre triangle), then you cast off and pick up stitches along the two sides of the triangle. The cast off edge becomes part of the top of [&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-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}