{"id":786,"date":"2008-04-06T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=786"},"modified":"2008-04-06T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T01:58:36","slug":"happy-blogiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Happy Blogiversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHappy Blogiversary to me!!
\nThe blog is four years old today, who’d have thunk it? (Certainly not David, who didn’t want to build me a blog, because he didn’t think I’d use it.)
\nTo celebrate, let’s have a finished project!
\nHyrna Herborgar. Done, knitted, finished, blocked and photographed.
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\nIt grew admirably after a bath. I was a little worried that it looked awfully small when I’d finished it, but by now, you think I’d have more faith in the magic of blocking.
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\nBoth of those pictures are pretty, but some of the detail is lost, so here are better pictures of the shawl itself.
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\nI love, love, love it.
\nIt’s not a hard pattern to follow, despite the sketchy translation, although it does get a little difficult once you lose that defined centre line.
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Hyrna Herborgar from Three Cornered and Long Shawls (Purchased here<\/a>)
\nYarn: Fibreworks Merino\/Possum 2ply in Pink Correa, purchased from Yarns Online<\/a>
\nNeedles: Addi Lace 3.5mm
\nAs mentioned, the pattern wasn’t too difficult. The chart is fairly straightforward, and while the instructions are sketchy, they’re plenty to get by on.
\nLove the yarn! The possum adds a lovely softness and warmth to the yarn, but the guard hairs tend to drop out all over the place. The yarn is a little heavier than a traditional laceweight, but it’s not quite a fingering weight, so it’s a nice compromise. It’d be nice if you were just starting out with lace and didn’t want to go straight to the skinny stuff.
\nThere’s 670 metres to a skein, and I only used just over half the skein, so the shawl itself doesn’t use a lot of yarn.
\nI love the way the colours come up, too. Not enough variegation to distract from the pattern, more like a shaded solid.
\nFinal verdict? Five stars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Blogiversary to me!! The blog is four years old today, who’d have thunk it? (Certainly not David, who didn’t want to build me a blog, because he didn’t think I’d use it.) To celebrate, let’s have a finished project! Hyrna Herborgar. Done, knitted, finished, blocked and photographed. It grew admirably after a bath. I […]<\/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-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}