{"id":637,"date":"2007-02-22T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=637"},"modified":"2007-02-22T20:27:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T10:27:33","slug":"637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faina&#8217;s Scarf.<br \/>\nNow you see it.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1972.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1972.html','popup','width=950,height=688,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_1972-thumb.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"311\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nNow you don&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1976.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1976.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nLet me explain.<br \/>\nI love the yarn.<br \/>\nI love the pattern.<br \/>\nTogether they just weren&#8217;t working for me.<br \/>\nt dawned on me late last night that this is a very, very wide scarf. Allow me to demonstrate.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1975.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1975.html','popup','width=950,height=697,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_1975-thumb.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"315\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe pattern claims that using sportweight yarn (check) on 3.5mm needles (I was using 3.25mm) would give a finished width of 10 inches. I hadn&#8217;t really thought about that.<br \/>\nThen when I had a good look at it, and then measured it, mine was coming out at 11 inches, unblocked.<br \/>\nI live in Sydney. Our winters just don&#8217;t require a scarf that wide. So I put it aside and thought about it for a while, then this afternoon, I ripped it out. I was at row 100.<br \/>\nSigh.<br \/>\nIt will be restarted in the Wagtails Yarns 4 ply (Fingering weight) on smaller needles. I&#8217;m 40 yards short, but hopefully the smaller needles and finer yarn will make it go a little further.<br \/>\nHowever, I do have progress to report on the Bloomin&#8217; Feet socks!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/bloominfeet8.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/bloominfeet8.html','popup','width=950,height=700,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\/bloominfeet8-thumb.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"316\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m on the home stretch now! Better start gathering some goodies to cushion the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faina&#8217;s Scarf. Now you see it. Now you don&#8217;t. Let me explain. I love the yarn. I love the pattern. Together they just weren&#8217;t working for me. t dawned on me late last night that this is a very, very wide scarf. Allow me to demonstrate. The pattern claims that using sportweight yarn (check) on [&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-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}