{"id":72,"date":"2011-03-12T00:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-06-17T00:47:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T00:47:02","slug":"start-of-a-happy-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/start-of-a-happy-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of a Happy Shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/happy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73\" title=\"happy\" src=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/happy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/happy.png 400w, https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/happy-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>This weekend I am starting on a new shawl design, that will be a free pattern offered thru Happy Knits\u2019 in the next couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the photo, it starts at the top with a garter stitch yoke with yarn-overs at the selvage edges and a spine increase with a center yarn-over that works really well with garter.\u00a0 After the garter yoke section, it will transition to a lace design that also incorporates garter patches for a cohesive overall garter look, and ending with a matching pointy edging.<\/p>\n<p>The shawl is being designed to use about 350-400 yards of fingering weight yarn, so will work well with most any single skein of 100g sock or fingering weight yarn (namely my favorite, Tosh Merino Light) or possibly a single skein of sport weight yarn as well.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for future progress and the finished pattern!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I am starting on a new shawl design, that will be a free pattern offered thru Happy Knits\u2019 in the next couple weeks. As you can see in the photo, it starts at the top with a garter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/start-of-a-happy-shawl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[7,34,122,8],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-designing","category-knitting","category-pattern","tag-design","tag-madelinetosh","tag-pattern","tag-shawl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}