{"id":643,"date":"2013-04-30T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wordpress\/?p=643"},"modified":"2014-12-30T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:00:38","slug":"finished-celestarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Celestarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look up at the sky…<\/p>\n

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Yep, it’s done.<\/p>\n

It took a pretty heroic effort there at the end to get all 8,000 miles of edging knit, but I made it happen. The photo above is post-blocking, and the finished shawl has a 45″ diameter. The pattern called for 48″, but I didn’t want to pull it too tightly and create a more open stockinette and risk losing the cool magenta\/green swirls in the yarn, since the Aurora Borealis effect was what I was after in the first place.<\/p>\n

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I did wind up needing the extra beads I ordered\u2014all but 10, in fact. I had just enough yarn left over for half a hexipuff. So I guess all that remains now is to start memorizing my constellations! Or perhaps find a fancy outdoor evening occasion to which to wear it and provide reference material for the other guests.<\/p>\n

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Celestarium (link<\/a>), knit in Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock Lightweight, color Corvid<\/a>, with about 300 silver-lined frosted crystal Toho beads.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look up at the sky…   Yep, it’s done. It took a pretty heroic effort there at the end to get all 8,000 miles of edging knit, but I made it happen. The photo above is post-blocking, and the finished shawl has a 45″ diameter. The pattern called for 48″, but I didn’t want to pull it too tightly and create a more open stockinette and risk losing the cool.. 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-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}