{"id":4355,"date":"2017-03-18T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2017-03-18T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T19:07:34","slug":"shawl-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"Shawl blocking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I soaked the shawl yesterday and pinned it out on some insulations boards I laid out on the king size bed upstairs, on top of a bunch of towels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4360\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031717-shawl-blocking.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4360\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031717-shawl-blocking.jpg\" alt=\"The shawl feels dry this morning, but the towels are damp, so it isn't ready to get unpinned.\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031717-shawl-blocking.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/031717-shawl-blocking-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The shawl feels dry, but the towels underneath are still damp when I just checked it, so it isn&#8217;t ready to get unpinned.\u00a0 Most likely tomorrow it will be done.\u00a0 Everything needs to be completely dry before I unpin it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get it quite square.\u00a0 It ended up being 57 inches square, and 81 inches across the middle from corner to corner.\u00a0 A thinner yarn is easier to stretch farther.<\/p>\n<p>It has a lovely halo to the fabric from the qiviut fibers, and the silk gives it a lot of tensile strength.\u00a0 Patience is such a virtue.\u00a0 Pity I don&#8217;t have any \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I soaked the shawl yesterday and pinned it out on some insulations boards I laid out on the king size bed upstairs, on top of a bunch of towels. I didn&#8217;t get it quite square.\u00a0 It ended up being 57 inches square, and 81 inches across the middle from corner to corner.\u00a0 A thinner yarn [&hellip;]<\/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-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}