{"id":294,"date":"2008-09-21T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=294"},"modified":"2008-10-23T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:37:45","slug":"blur-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2008\/09\/blur-cowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur Cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cowl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cowl-150x129.jpg\" alt=\"Cowl\" width=\"150\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cowl-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cowl-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cowl.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> My version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sixoneseven.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/dolores-park-cowl.html\">Dolores Park Cowl<\/a> made using 2 x 50 gram skeins of Sirdar Blur which have been hanging around in my stash for months.<\/p>\n<p>I used two strands throughout. I think the colourways were &#8220;Inca&#8221; and &#8220;Desire&#8221; which look absolutely fabulous together.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up abandoning the circulars recommend by the pattern and switched to straight needles as the smallest circulars I had were 22 inches and, at a gauge of 3sts per inch, 60 sts works out to only 20 inches! <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t figure out why no one else seems to have had a problem with this.<\/p>\n<p>I also dropped my needle size to 8mm. So, all in all, a bit fiddly to get sorted out initially but the end result was perfect &#8211; although I still need to gently block it. Can&#8217;t wait to try it out but I think it needs to get a bit colder first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My version of the Dolores Park Cowl made using 2 x 50 gram skeins of Sirdar Blur which have been hanging around in my stash for months. I used two strands throughout. I think the colourways were &#8220;Inca&#8221; and &#8220;Desire&#8221; which look absolutely fabulous together. I ended up abandoning the circulars recommend by the pattern and switched to straight needles as the smallest circulars I had were 22 inches and, at a gauge of 3sts per inch, 60 sts works out to only 20 inches! I can\u2019t figure out why no one else seems to have had a problem with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[19,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}