{"id":4432,"date":"2019-01-02T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2019-01-20T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T19:42:55","slug":"swatch-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"swatch\/blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i crocheted up one square in each color to check that the gradient was fairly smooth.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/46764632432\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"temperature swatch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4904\/46764632432_9505642795.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"temperature swatch\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>then i tested the concept of alternating with white squares.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/46764633102\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"large swatch or small blanket\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4858\/46764633102_a64c738454.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"491\" alt=\"large swatch or small blanket\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<p>i ran the colors on the diagonal rather than in straight lines.  that made it easier to crochet together but alternating squares means i really need to have a whole row finished before i put them together.  that is fine for a regular blanket but not great for a temperature tracker.  i didn&#8217;t want to waste the swatch though, and this yarn is almost impossible to frog, so i added a border and it will work as a little blanket for a pukifee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i crocheted up one square in each color to check that the gradient was fairly smooth. then i tested the concept of alternating with white squares. i ran the colors on the diagonal rather than in straight lines. that made it easier to crochet together but alternating squares means i really need to have a whole row finished before i put them together. that is fine for a regular blanket but not great for a temperature tracker. i didn&#8217;t want to waste the swatch though, and this yarn is almost impossible to frog, so i added a border and it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432"}],"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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}