{"id":762,"date":"2008-01-29T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=762"},"modified":"2008-01-29T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T10:03:56","slug":"already-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Already bored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m already bored with blogging the Shetland shawl. I&#8221;m still ahead of target, so it&#8217;s going well. Here&#8217;s an updated picture.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/290108%20008.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/290108%20008.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\/290108%20008-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nLike I said, boring blogging. Even the Baudelaire&#8217;s haven&#8217;t seen much action, because I&#8217;ve been working so hard on the shawl.<br \/>\nSo lets go back tot he second of the secret projects I was working on, back in December. Evelyn, who is a longtime commenter here, but who is sadly blogless, had a little baby girl named Audrey back in November. I wanted to knit something for her, so I ordered some Zara, and whipped up a February Baby Sweater from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elizabeth-Zimmermanns-Knitters-Almanac-Zimmermann\/dp\/0486241785\/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1201601576&#038;sr=8-2\">Elizabeth Zimmerman&#8217;s Knitters Almanac<\/a>. I love the way it looks while it&#8217;s being constructed.<br \/>\nFor anyone who hasn&#8217;t actually knit this (Am I the last?!?), you start with the round yoke and work down, adding in sleeves as you go.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3710.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3710.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_3710-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe sleeves are knit flat, then you pick up all the body stitches again, and work down to the hem.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3713.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3713.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_3713-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a nifty little knit, at the end, the only seams you have are the sleeve and underarm seams, and it&#8217;s so pretty!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3757.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3757.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_3757-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3758.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3758.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_3758-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nBut the Zara knit up into a much larger cardi than I was expecting! I was aiming for a 3 months or so size, and ended up with something that may even fit a one year old! That&#8217;s okay, Audrey lives in San Francisco, and may need it then.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s it, all I have. Next time, another FO, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m already bored with blogging the Shetland shawl. I&#8221;m still ahead of target, so it&#8217;s going well. Here&#8217;s an updated picture. Like I said, boring blogging. Even the Baudelaire&#8217;s haven&#8217;t seen much action, because I&#8217;ve been working so hard on the shawl. So lets go back tot he second of the secret projects I was [&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-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}