{"id":478,"date":"2006-01-18T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T02:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=478"},"modified":"2006-01-18T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T02:06:05","slug":"478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done, it&#8217;s done!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6536.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6536.html','popup','width=700,height=525,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\/100_6536-thumb.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe baby shawl is all finished, bar the blocking. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll like it even more when it&#8217;s blocked! It has just now occured to me that this may not be the most appropriate gift for this baby. The mother is not a knitter, and she has a toddler in addition to the new baby. A shawl that needs to be blocked may not be appropriate. And the family lives in Brisbane, with the baby due next month. Brisbane&#8217;s temperature in February averages 25C.<br \/>\nHmm. They&#8217;re getting it anyway!<br \/>\nThe shawl will not be blocked today, because it looks like this again.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6537.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6537.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nHowever, that means it&#8217;s a lovely day for knitting. And just in the nick of time, my haul from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnsonline.com.au\">Yarns Online<\/a> arrived.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6524.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6524.html','popup','width=700,height=525,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\/100_6524-thumb.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nYum! The colours didn&#8217;t show up very accurately though, here&#8217;s a better pic.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6532.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6532.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThe purple is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnsonline.com.au\/category12_1.htm\">Lambs Pride Bulky<\/a> in Supreme Purple. The pink is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnsonline.com.au\/category3_1.htm\">Cascade 220<\/a> in Raspberry. Scarf Style has some nice patterns in it. I have some Green Cascade 220 that my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnover.blogdrive.com\/\">Jill<\/a> gave me ages ago, and I think I might make &#8220;Backyard Leaves&#8221; with that.<br \/>\nHowever right now, I&#8217;m going to use this grey, dull, rainy afternoon to start my bag!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done, it&#8217;s done! The baby shawl is all finished, bar the blocking. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it, and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll like it even more when it&#8217;s blocked! It has just now occured to me that this may not be the most appropriate gift for this baby. The mother is not a knitter, and [&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-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}