{"id":979,"date":"2011-05-13T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2011-05-13T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:11:35","slug":"ready-for-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"ready for take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 2 years of knitting my second full size laceweight shawl, I can finally announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/mimknits.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=69&amp;products_id=195\" target=\"_blank\">Icarus <\/a>is nearly ready for takeoff. It&#8217;s off the needles, there&#8217;s just the small matter of finishing off blocking to be done.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iphone-20110328 002 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5675337616\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5148\/5675337616_6fd3faf8a3.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110328 002\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did the last few rows (at nearly half an hour per row) on the daily commute, since once you&#8217;ve memorised the pattern for the row you can just plough on until the end of the row and put the patterns away.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iphone-20110328 017 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5675337318\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5227\/5675337318_528c924f32.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110328 017\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, things went faster when I gave myself permission to finish mid-row, meaning I could do 1.5 rows per journey&#8230; it&#8217;s the small things that make all the difference it seems!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5628049977\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5228\/5628049977_d02c0332c6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s how it looks now. It has a recipient lined up for when it&#8217;s properly finished.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s made in a 100% Merino cobweb laceweight yarn, bought from <a href=\"http:\/\/myworld.ebay.co.uk\/angeljays&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEFSX:SELLERID\" target=\"_blank\">anjelajays<\/a> of eBay fame (mainly because she sells her laceweight in balls\u00a0rather\u00a0than skeins&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 ) which is lovely and light as the name suggests, and not too warm for the height of summer.<\/p>\n<p>I have another laceweight shawl lined up to do with the rest of this yarn now. Yes, because I&#8217;m a masochist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 2 years of knitting my second full size laceweight shawl, I can finally announce that Icarus is nearly ready for takeoff. It&#8217;s off the needles, there&#8217;s just the small matter of finishing off blocking to be done. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-so-sos","category-im-pleased-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}