{"id":437,"date":"2012-06-21T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-12-30T01:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:06:25","slug":"playing-catch-up-part-2-lace-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Playing catch-up, Part 2: Lace things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m trying to be a good girl, and actually give a little word-space to all the stuff I\u2019ve been too lax to blog up proper in the past few months. To that end, I present Part the Second: LACE STUFF.<\/p>\n

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I knit this shawl up, as they say down at the docks, for the halibut. I had the yarn from a gifty-swap thing from eons ago, and was itching to knit up the pattern, but had no real need or desire for a wine-red lace shawl. Mr. Boyfriend’s mama, however, had no such compunction, so it went home with her after they came for a visit in March. The yarn is KnitPicks Shimmer Lace, a handpainted alpaca\/silk blend. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did. It knit up beautifully, and wasn’t as hairy or itchy as I thought it would be. The pattern is a free one called Winter Thaw, and is a total cinch. That picture is taken with it hung on our closet door, so a ball and a half (approx. 600 yards) blocked into an almost-7 foot shawl. Pretty!<\/p>\n

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Many moons ago, I commissioned a yarn from the lovely Jen at 76knits (link<\/a>). She dyes yarns and names them after quotes from\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>. Anyone who knows me even a little will be able to understand the appeal. I asked for a color inspired by Xander’s characterization of country music: “the music of pain.” And Jen, of course, delivered most admirably. I waited around for ages for the right pattern for this super-special yarn to come along, and it finally did. Gaenor is a sweet little shawlette knit from end to end, which I thought (and rightly so) would show off the variegation to its best advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m trying to be a good girl, and actually give a little word-space to all the stuff I\u2019ve been too lax to blog up proper in the past few months. To that end, I present Part the Second: LACE STUFF. I knit this shawl up, as they say down at the docks, for the halibut. I had the yarn from a gifty-swap thing from eons ago, and was itching to.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}