{"id":740,"date":"2007-11-11T20:45:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T10:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=740"},"modified":"2007-11-11T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T10:45:23","slug":"the-sun-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"The sun came out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So finally, after a week of rain, the sun came out yesterday. I woke up, spotted the blue sky and immediately dumped the Hemlock Blanket into the bath.<br \/>\nAnd now it&#8217;s done.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3492.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3492.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_3492-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m pretty happy with it, but not totally.  Gauge shouldn&#8217;t really matter on a blanket, but I think I&#8217;d have been happier if I&#8217;d used a bigger needle. It hasn&#8217;t blocked out as nicely as I&#8217;d hoped it would.<br \/>\nI stretched it out as much as I could, but it needed to be stretched more to prevent the bubbling in the feather and fan sections. But the radial stitches between each feather and fan section are as tight as I could get them. I think a bigger needle would have made the blocking easier.<br \/>\nApart from that issue, yes, I&#8217;m happy with it. The fancy cast off was a pain in the butt, but it&#8217;s pretty!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3494.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3494.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_3494-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd I love the centre flower.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3493.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3493.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_3493-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s the perfect size for a lap rug.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3497.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3497.html','popup','width=950,height=713,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_3497-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWell, it will be when the weather cools down again. It only stayed there long enough for the picture to be taken!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So finally, after a week of rain, the sun came out yesterday. I woke up, spotted the blue sky and immediately dumped the Hemlock Blanket into the bath. And now it&#8217;s done. I&#8217;m pretty happy with it, but not totally. Gauge shouldn&#8217;t really matter on a blanket, but I think I&#8217;d have been happier if [&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-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}