{"id":499,"date":"2006-03-09T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=499"},"modified":"2006-03-09T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T00:19:25","slug":"499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Zhivago lace cardi is finished. Here&#8217;s a bad pic of it.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6899.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6899.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll try to get a better one. Once again, DH and I were arguing during the photo process. I&#8217;m always saying &#8220;Oh, just take the damn picture!&#8221; and that&#8217;s usually right when he takes it.  I think it fits better than it looks in the pic &#8211; and I think I might want to get a better pin to use as a closure &#8211; the pencil doesn&#8217;t quite cut it!<br \/>\nThe pattern called for 10 balls of Zhivago, but I only used 8. That&#8217;s extremely rare for me, I usually use more than the pattern calls for.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s next? <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnover.blogdrive.com\/\">Jill<\/a> sent me some magazines, including the newest Interweave Knits. I love the Evelyn Clark scarf, &#8220;Trellis Scarf&#8221;, so I whipped out the Cherry Tree Hill Possum Lace that I&#8217;ve been playing with, and I think this is exactly what the yarn wants to be.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_68821.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_68821.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_6882-thumb.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe pattern isn&#8217;t too bad, although the &#8220;Seven into Five&#8221; clusters can be fiddly. I find knitting lace so soothing. I love the counting, I love seeing the lace pattern emerge. I love the blocking at the end, and watching the heap of yarn become a beautiful lace item.<br \/>\nThis is Twink letting us know she&#8217;s ready for bed. If we haven&#8217;t put her to bed when she&#8217;s ready, she flops down right in front of the television, just to remind us that she&#8217;s waiting. I love the two little paws just barely sticking out \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6920.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6920.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zhivago lace cardi is finished. Here&#8217;s a bad pic of it. I&#8217;ll try to get a better one. Once again, DH and I were arguing during the photo process. I&#8217;m always saying &#8220;Oh, just take the damn picture!&#8221; and that&#8217;s usually right when he takes it. I think it fits better than it looks [&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-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}