{"id":974,"date":"2008-03-09T08:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-03-09T08:43:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T13:43:25","slug":"long-long-lacy-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Long long lacy gloves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally started work on the “long long lacy gloves” pattern from Lace Style<\/i><\/a> by Allen and Budd. I worked on the lace cuff from mid afternoon until bed time off and on, and only completed two and a half repeats. I frogged and tinked so many times that the yarn started to fray. I have to have this pair done by the first Tuesday in April so that I can enter them in the Charlotte Knitting Guild 1st annual contest. I am starting to wonder if I can do it.<\/p>\n

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I’m up to 5 repeats of the pattern now. Two more repeats and I’ll be done with the basic structure of the cuff. Here are some Work in Progress pix…<\/p>\n

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I’ll take a moment to thank the unknown knitters who thought up the “safety cord” for use in knitting. It saved my sanity last night when I had to rip that third repeat back 6 times. By the way, this is a newish (I think) yarn of the brand name of Yummy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally started work on the “long long lacy gloves” pattern from Lace Style by Allen and Budd. I worked on the lace cuff from mid afternoon until bed time off and on, and only completed two and a half repeats. I frogged and tinked so many times that the yarn started to fray. I … Continue reading “Long long lacy gloves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85],"tags":[104,108,120],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-lace","tag-mitts","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-fI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":977,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=977","url_meta":{"origin":974,"position":0},"title":"First glove finished!","author":"Jorah","date":"April 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I still have to sew on the false buttons on the cuff, but otherwise this first glove is finished. 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