{"id":182,"date":"2005-12-24T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/24\/photo-finish\/"},"modified":"2005-12-24T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T03:36:00","slug":"photo-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Photo finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>That was definitely close. I finished the Clapotis for my mother-in-law last Friday with 2.5 yards left to spare. It felt like a race to the finish… thankfully, I won. It would have been a royal pain in the ass to have to rip back to reclaim yarn in order to finish. I spent a good deal of time during the decrease section glaring at the Clapotis then trying to gauge how much yarn I had left. There were even a few times when I tried to weight the increase section from the beginning against what was left of my yarn ball… one in each hand… doing that balancing scale hand action… geez, I must have looked like a freak.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This shot is just to show you the colors. The yarn was Laurel from Schaefer Yarns<\/a> in their Empress Wu Zhao colorway. I still need to soak it and lay it out to get rid of the curling and to straighten out the dropped stitches a little. The advice I got at my LYS was to just add a glug of vinegar along with the wool wash stuff. (Rebecca<\/a>, I have no idea if lemon juice would work… definitely acidic… something to look into.) I’m probably going to go with the vinegar since that’s what I have on hand at the moment. No way am I going out for a lemon tonight… it’s dark, wet, the day before a holiday in the San Francisco Bay Area, which means that people are wandering around in moronic hazes in their large SUVs. Nope, not going out tonight. <\/p>\n

The Husband is beginning to set the table for dinner… he’s made crab and corn bisque… mmmm… crab. I helped pick the meat out of the two crabs we picked up earlier today. I love Dungeness crab season. Yum! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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