{"id":636,"date":"2007-02-19T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=636"},"modified":"2007-02-19T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T04:11:06","slug":"636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Lets talk once again about the wonders of blocking.
\nI know, I harp on a bit, don’t I?
\nAt about 11pm on Saturday night (around the time I get all my wonderful ideas), I took a good look at Faina’s Scarf and got a bit worried.
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\nPardon the blurriness, it was 11pm after all, and my camera’s night vision requires more steadiness than I’m patient enough to provide.
\nAnyway, the point is, see the way it’s curling? I was a bit worried that I had cast on too tightly and that the curl wouldn’t block out.
\nSo I needed to make a decision before I went any further. Should I rip it out and start over? Should I knit on, and have faith that it would come out alright?
\nOr should I block it as it is and see how it goes?
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\nI went with option 3.
\nI got out a hand towel, pins and a water spray bottle. I spritzed the knitting (being very careful near the bamboo needle!), pinned it out, and left it overnight.
\nSunday morning, I awoke to this.
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\nWhy did I ever doubt?
\nNone of the colours are accurate, by the way, but the top two are closest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lets talk once again about the wonders of blocking. I know, I harp on a bit, don’t I? At about 11pm on Saturday night (around the time I get all my wonderful ideas), I took a good look at Faina’s Scarf and got a bit worried. Pardon the blurriness, it was 11pm after all, and […]<\/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-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}