{"id":3905,"date":"2016-03-08T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:12:53","slug":"joining-my-first-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"joining my first cal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>need a birthday gift for my niece so i&#8217;m joining a kal (cal) for a space shawl with some lovely soft yarn stashed ages ago from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatsleepknit.com\/\" title=\"eat sleep knit yarn shop\">eat sleep knit<\/a>. ( i get a lot of my doll yarn from there.  the malabrigo lace is perfect for the tinies and sooo soft.  this colorway just didn&#8217;t work out and i couldn&#8217;t bear to give it away so i&#8217;ts been sitting in my stash for years!)  <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/25531695711\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Esk space shawl swatch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1695\/25531695711_058c1bfb49.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Esk space shawl swatch\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nthis is just the swatch to check my hook size.  and i&#8217;ll use it to make sure i have the right blue tone, before i dye the whole shawl<\/p>\n<p>the color way looks prettier\/brighter than it really is, and it really doesn&#8217;t do the pattern justice, i&#8217;m more into tone on tone than variegated yarns lately. but the yarn is so nice i&#8217;m going to over dye it blue once i&#8217;m done to make a lovely purple and black tone on tone shawl.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>need a birthday gift for my niece so i&#8217;m joining a kal (cal) for a space shawl with some lovely soft yarn stashed ages ago from eat sleep knit. ( i get a lot of my doll yarn from there. the malabrigo lace is perfect for the tinies and sooo soft. this colorway just didn&#8217;t work out and i couldn&#8217;t bear to give it away so i&#8217;ts been sitting in my stash for years!) this is just the swatch to check my hook size. and i&#8217;ll use it to make sure i have the right blue tone, before i dye&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,13],"tags":[375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}