{"id":732,"date":"2007-10-19T17:12:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T07:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=732"},"modified":"2007-10-19T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T07:12:51","slug":"it-grows-and-grows-and-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"It grows. And grows, and grows!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the Hemlock Ring Blanket is growing. And super quickly, too. It feels really odd to be working lace in such a heavy weight yarn, but it’s also nice to watch it grow before your eyes. When you work with laceweight, you knit for hours, and your project takes 3 days to grow an inch!
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\nHere’s a closer look at the Feather and Fan part.
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\nI’m using 5.5mm needles, but I think I could have gone up to a 6mm and still been happy with the resulting fabric. Except that I don’t have a very long 6mm needle. I’m using a 5.5mm Knitpicks tip, on a 100 cm cord, and it’s getting a bit crowded. I’ve ordered a 150cm cable from Donni<\/a>, and I think I’m going to need it pretty soon.
\nAnd did I mention that these hanks are huge? I’m up to round 87. I have over 400 stitches per round, and I still have this much of the first hank left.
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\nDoesn’t look like much? How about now?
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\nHuge Hanks. Huge.
\nBrooklyn Tweed did 101 rounds on his blanket. I may make mine a little bigger, we’ll see how bored I am and how hot the weather is when I get there. It’s another hot day today.
\nLast time I posted, I mentioned I was having trouble with my ‘net connection. Twasn’t the connection. My modem laid down and quietly died not long after I finished the post. I now realise that I am far too reliant on my ‘net connection. I had no internet for just over a day. I was a little lost soul. No blogs, no Ravelry, email only through my mobile phone.
\nEmily was asking me questions about her homework, and I had no Google! No dictionary.com!
\nI am pathetic!
\nAnd today my 13 month old car is back at the dealer, because warning lights are coming on that shouldn’t be. I have had no car all day. I’m almost as bad as I was without my internet.
\nThank heavens for old fashioned knitting, huh? No mechanical bits that can pack it in when least expect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the Hemlock Ring Blanket is growing. And super quickly, too. It feels really odd to be working lace in such a heavy weight yarn, but it’s also nice to watch it grow before your eyes. When you work with laceweight, you knit for hours, and your project takes 3 days to grow an inch! […]<\/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-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}