{"id":760,"date":"2008-01-24T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=760"},"modified":"2008-01-24T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T09:55:52","slug":"the-challenge-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"The challenge begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I&#8217;ve entered the Shetland Shawl in the <a href=\"http:\/\/eastershow.com.au\/home.html\">Royal Easter Show.<\/a><br \/>\nLast time we saw it (back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/001266.html\">July<\/a>), it looked like this.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_26761.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_26761.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_2676-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd much as I hate to admit it, that&#8217;s how it still looks. Today I was thinking about the show and the shawl, and I realised that Easter is relatively early this year. So I checked the schedule, and entries need to be delivered on March 7 and 8.<br \/>\n42 days. I have to knit two borders, graft them to the shawl, dye it and block it. I figure I need to do at <em>least<\/em> 6 rows a day.<br \/>\nSo I probably shouldn&#8217;t have started a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/issuesummer06\/PATTbaudelaire.html\">Baudelaire&#8217;s<\/a>, should I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I&#8217;ve entered the Shetland Shawl in the Royal Easter Show. Last time we saw it (back in July), it looked like this. And much as I hate to admit it, that&#8217;s how it still looks. Today I was thinking about the show and the shawl, and I realised that Easter is relatively early [&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-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}