{"id":60,"date":"2011-03-30T05:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-03-30T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:25:34","slug":"grafting-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"grafting woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

i got up early today and decided to try and finish my new hoody before i had to start work. all i had left was grafting the hood seam – no sweat i’d whip it up quick and on to blocking. after ripping back 3 times because i made a mistake and got it uneven, (a real pain when working with almost black yarn and 1.5mm stitches) i finally got to the end with about 3 inches of yarn left, barely enough to weave in.<\/p>\n

finished! just one quick check before burying the end forever.<\/p>\n

turning it right side out (those who know grafting can see where this is going) i saw to my dismay that in my inexperience grafting,\u00a0 i had turned the sweater inside out like you do with most seam finishes,\u00a0 and i now had a beautiful graft – with the seam on the outside…….<\/p>\n

carefully, i unpicked it yet again. this time i came to the end with only one mishap – 8 stitches from the end my poor abused yarn broke and i had to splice a new piece on – but i persevered to the end, and this time got it right.<\/p>\n

here is a picture of my hoody, not a great one but after all that i was out of time.\u00a0 it is much lighter than the original so that you can see at least a bit of the stitch pattern.\u00a0 once it is washed blocked and has the buttons sewn on, i’ll put up a better pic.<\/p>\n

i think i’ll be very happy with this one and anticipate wearing it often.<\/p>\n

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i got up early today and decided to try and finish my new hoody before i had to start work. all i had left was grafting the hood seam – no sweat i’d whip it up quick and on to blocking. after ripping back 3 times because i made a mistake and got it uneven, (a real pain when working with almost black yarn and 1.5mm stitches) i finally got to the end with about 3 inches of yarn left, barely enough to weave in. finished! just one quick check before burying the end forever. turning it right side out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[4,6,8,5,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}