{"id":874,"date":"2006-05-05T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2006-05-05T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T13:41:00","slug":"say-whos-that-knitter-whos-dancing-with-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"Say, who&#8217;s that knitter who&#8217;s dancing with glee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>It&#8217;s me!  It&#8217;s me!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/Tyrathialacecu.jpg\"\/ border=\"3\"><\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text= \"Finished object picture + unblocking details below cut\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I decided to let the scarf sit  overnight on the blocking board, just to be sure it was very dry.  Making that decision stopped me from touching it every hour going, &#8220;is it dry yet?  Is it dry yet?&#8221;  Truth to tell, it probably dried in about ten hours.  At least, that&#8217;s when the blocking board started to curve.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/boardcurved.jpg\" \/  width=350 border=\"3\"><br \/>\nWhy?  Cheap board material?  It got wet and bowed?  The scarf shrunk from drying and the tension pulled it in?  Eh, whatever, it didn&#8217;t hurt my scarf, so fine with me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/removingpins.jpg\" \/  width=350 border=\"3\" ><br \/>\nI put my &#8220;peppy&#8221; mix on iTunes and started removing the pins, expecting it to pull back in on itself some.  It didn&#8217;t.  At all.  This stuff is very inelastic.  Fortunately, that&#8217;s all to the good with lace.  This stuff drapes great.  Very elegant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/Tyrathiascarffinished.jpg\" \/ border=\"3\"><br \/>\nPattern:<br \/>\nFern lace wrap from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1564775496\/ref=pd_sl_aw_alx-jeb-9-1_book_5412903_4\/102-7631636-3460149?n=283155\">The Little Box of Scarves<\/a> (note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.martingale-pub.com\/Information\/Corrections\/B666_cor.htm\">check for errata on website.<\/a>  There&#8217;s just a minor wording revision on this, but it&#8217;s always a good idea.<br \/>\nNeedles: US 6<br \/>\nCast on 39 as opposed to 59 pictured on front of pattern.<br \/>\nThe yarn is kind of a mystery yarn.  It was bought in St. Louis on sale, and looks like bamboo, although the label says soysilk.  It&#8217;s not a current label, though.  Do I have super-secret prototype yarn?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/mysterylabel.jpg\" border=\"3\">  front<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Tyrathiascarf\/mysterylabelback.jpg\" border=\"3\" >  back<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be rolling this and the previous post into one gigantic blocking post in <lj user=knitting> later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sending this to Tyrathia tomorrow.  I showed her the pics and she was extra happy!  But today, I&#8217;m taking it nonchalantly around to my local yarn stores.  &#8220;Oh, this old thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eh, who am I kidding?  I&#8217;m going to be beaming with pride too hard to act anything but giddy.<\/p>\n<p>Happy dance!  Happy happy happy dance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s me! It&#8217;s me! I decided to let the scarf sit overnight on the blocking board, just to be sure it was very dry. Making that decision stopped me from touching it every hour going, &#8220;is it dry yet? Is it dry yet?&#8221; Truth to tell, it probably dried in about ten hours. At least, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}