{"id":884,"date":"2012-09-11T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=884"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:06:11","slug":"ravellenic-games-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Ravellenic Games Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I really did mean to keep up-to-date on posting during the Ravellenic Games, but we know what they say about good intentions.\u00a0\u00a0I had two projects to work on during the games, and I managed to complete one.<\/p>\n

I worked on the Autumn Vines Beret<\/a>\u00a0(RAV) first, and finished it in decent time.\u00a0\u00a0I would have finished it earlier if I had really committed to the process, but there were some nights I just didn\u2019t feel like knitting, which that will get me every time.\u00a0\u00a0This was a fun pattern to knit, and one I actually think I\u2019d be interested in doing again, perhaps with the yarn suggested in the pattern because I love the color (they had it at Stitches West 2012 and it was fabulous).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My second project was the Citron shawl<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0I started it the morning after finishing the beret, but I only had a little more than a week to get it done.\u00a0\u00a0I actually managed to get a good deal of it done on a trip down to San Diego to take the Academy of Certified Archivists exam.\u00a0\u00a0My dad drove me, so I was able to sit in the passenger seat and knit, knit, knit.\u00a0\u00a0Of course, the problem with a shawl is always the fact that it gets bigger and bigger the further you get, and I had decided from the outset to knit 7 sections rather than the called for 5 sections (I wanted to make sure I got every color of the progression into the shawl).\u00a0\u00a0I got to the 7th section on Saturday, August 11.\u00a0\u00a0I thought I was good to go, but then I discovered that I had read the instructions incorrectly, and that instead of having until midnight of the 12th, I only had until 4 pm my time.\u00a0\u00a0I kind of gave up then.\u00a0\u00a0I even put my knitting down and didn\u2019t pick it back up for almost 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s a good thing that I put it down.\u00a0\u00a0When I picked it up again, I decided to see if I could get an extra section out of my yarn.\u00a0\u00a0With worry that I might run out, I knit an 8th section and started on the ruffle.\u00a0\u00a0Amazingly enough I got to the end and still have a little bit of yarn left.\u00a0\u00a0Now the shawl is cast off and just in need to a wash and block.\u00a0\u00a0Now where did I put those T-pins\u2026.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really did mean to keep up-to-date on posting during the Ravellenic Games, but we know what they say about good intentions.\u00a0\u00a0I had two projects to work on during the games, and I managed to complete one. I worked on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[286,28,375,376,374,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}