{"id":578,"date":"2009-02-09T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=578"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T11:11:54","slug":"lace-cashmere-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/02\/lace-cashmere-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Lace Cashmere Shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2009\/02\/lace-cashmere-shawl\/shawl-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shawl-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"Cashmere Shawl\" title=\"Cashmere Shawl\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shawl-150x121.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shawl-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shawl.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> I treated myself to 100gms (1000 yards) of undyed laceweight cashmere last October. <\/p>\n<p>Just before Xmas, I finally plucked up the courage to start work on a crocheted lace shawl based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/journal2\/donisfuff\/croshawl.html\">Seraphina&#8217;s Shawl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I finished it this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having been a little scared about using such a fine yarn, I have to say that it worked up beautifully. I made it a lot shorter than <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2008\/12\/seraphinas-shawl-quick-reference\/\">my winter Seraphina<\/a> (which was made using a silk\/cotton aran weight yarn) but it still has 26 shells on each edge and it will undoubtedly lengthen when I (gently) block it.<\/p>\n<p>I also added an extra row along the edge to lengthen and emphasis the shells.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ch1, *sc evenly up to shell, sc in first dc of shell, (4dc, 3ch, 4dc) in ch2-space of shell, sc in last dc of shell*. Repeat from * to * then sc evenly to end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to wearing this when the weather gets a little warmer. Until then, I&#8217;ll stick with my winter Seraphina which I&#8217;m wearing pretty much every day! It&#8217;s wonderfully warm and its shape makes it extremely practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I treated myself to 100gms (1000 yards) of undyed laceweight cashmere last October. Just before Xmas, I finally plucked up the courage to start work on a crocheted lace shawl based on Seraphina&#8217;s Shawl. I finished it this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[73,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}