{"id":2966,"date":"2012-02-24T00:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/pipesdreams\/acanthus-shawlette\/index"},"modified":"2012-02-24T00:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T05:19:40","slug":"green-leaf-acanthus-shawlette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/2966","title":{"rendered":"Green Leaf Acanthus Shawlette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aug 5: Waiting for Lorna’s Laces to arrive so I can start Amy’s Koyo, until then going to drive myself insane with sticky, fluffy, thinner-than-dental-floss mohair. Let the good times roll? O_o<\/p>\n

Oct 14: Finished at last! Phew, that took a while. I found the lace repeats difficult to get into a rhythm with, since there seemed to be no logic to the repeats. I was working with the written instructions, not the charts, so perhaps that was part of the problem, not sure.<\/p>\n

Was stumped when I got to Part 2, had a complete mental block about the short rows. Still not sure how I managed to follow the instructions to pick up 164, yet only had 128 when I cast off. Hmm. Would have liked a little diagram showing how the back and forth of the short rows worked with the completed lace crescent, for clarity and confidence.<\/p>\n

Used about 270 yards of laceweight mohair\/silk blend, doing full set of repeats with no mods. Very lovely finished product, though small, but I don’t know if I would tackle this a second time. Have not blocked it yet, unsure whether blocking will ruin the nice 3D effect of the leaves.<\/p>\n

Audiobook: Listened to Ian Carmichael read Dorothy L. Sayers’ “Whose Body?” while knitting this but was too distracted by the lace to listen properly, so did most of it silently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug 5: Waiting for Lorna’s Laces to arrive so I can start Amy’s Koyo, until then going to drive myself insane with sticky, fluffy, thinner-than-dental-floss mohair. Let the good times roll? O_o Oct 14: Finished at last! Phew, that took a while. I found the lace repeats difficult to get into a rhythm with, since […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}