{"id":948,"date":"2011-04-04T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2011-04-04T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:36:08","slug":"eiki-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/eiki-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Eiki Shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I last posted, one of my friends had a baby, and I got sick! Suck! I also managed to <strike>sucker a couple of people into driving me places<\/strike> go to Ikea and SuperWalmart, which were both fun excursions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I stayed home from work as I lost my voice almost totally from all the coughing I got up to over the weekend. By now it&#39;s mostly back, but I can only imagine what a day of answering phones would have done to it. I&#39;m looking forward to getting back into the groove of things tomorrow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I napped part of the morning away, then managed to stay awake in the afternoon and since I had some free time I decided to photograph my latest FO, which is the Eiki Shawl by Janel Laidman. I finished it last Friday and blocked it on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-950\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03948.jpg\" title=\"DSC03948\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03948.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03948-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turned out MEGA nice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s one of the largest shawl(ette)s I&#39;ve knit, and has rocketed straight to the top in terms of favorite. The yarn, Sanguine Gryphon Bugga! in Landlubber Grasshopper was purchased directly from the company at Stitches West. I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever purchased yarn and finished a project so soon with it before! The pattern calls for 440 yards of yarn; I not only chose a yarn with 412 yards, but I used a bigger needle than called for as well. Let&#39;s just say it was a bit of a nail biter towards the end as the yarn ball kept getting smaller and smaller &#8211; and I have no other yarn this particular shade of red in the stash, so I wasn&#39;t sure what I would do if I ran out early. Luckily, while I worried about it extensively it turned out I didn&#39;t have to, though there is very little yarn left.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OKAY so I just weighed the shawl and the leftover yarn and the yarn weighed 4.25 oz, so if my calculations are correct, that actually means that I had 437 yards, in which case, I was fine. Hmpf.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s some detail shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-951\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03952.jpg\" title=\"DSC03952\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03952.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03952-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-952\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03954.jpg\" title=\"DSC03954\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03954.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03954-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-954\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03957.jpg\" title=\"DSC03957\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03957.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC03957-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The colors are actually pretty accurate on my monitor &#8211; you can see the flecks of purple and gold in with the deep red.<\/p>\n<p>This was truly one of my favorite knitting experiences &#8211; all that garter stitch plus leafy lace? It&#39;s basically my favorite things! Plus my new favorite yarn so it was doubly nice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/eiki-shawl\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I last posted, one of my friends had a baby, and I got sick! Suck! I also managed to sucker a couple of people into driving me places go to Ikea and SuperWalmart, which were both fun excursions.&nbsp; Today I stayed home from work as I lost my voice almost totally from all the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/eiki-shawl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eiki Shawl&#8221;<\/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":[3,4,203],"tags":[293,294,49],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-knitting","category-shawls-scarves","tag-bugga","tag-eiki","tag-fos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}