{"id":775,"date":"2011-07-12T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:34:16","slug":"knitting-corrective-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Corrective Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few weeks ago, when I found out that the border for Wedding Blanket the First was <a href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/06\/and-the-knitting-fates-laughed\/\">maybe a little too big<\/a>?\u00a0 If not, you really should read it &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a laugh or two at my misfortune.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, I can wait.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so how do you fix a problem like that?\u00a0 An extra foot in two sides of a one-piece border with mitered corners and a non-trivial pattern throughout?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it starts with a small pair of scissors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-776\" title=\"P1030054\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1030054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This part is not for the faint of heart, but it&#8217;s not as bad as doing fair isle knitting &#8211; you have to snip the yarn a row or two above where you actually want to join to, and then unravel slowly down to the desired place, picking up the stitches on a needle once you get there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-777\" title=\"P1030055\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1030055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You do the same thing to the side that you want to join it to, kitchner the two sides together, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;voila!\u00a0 Another <a href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/16\/the-beginning-is-the-end-is-the-beginning\/\">nearly perfect join<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-778\" title=\"P1030058\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1030058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then you do that at the other side, and suddenly it looks exactly like it did before, except it actually fits the blanket it was made for, and you have a couple of extra bits hanging around.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"P1030059\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1030059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, question becomes: what, exactly, does one do with a couple nearly-one-foot long sections of border like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few weeks ago, when I found out that the border for Wedding Blanket the First was maybe a little too big?\u00a0 If not, you really should read it &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a laugh or two at my misfortune.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t worry, I can wait. Okay, so how do you fix a problem like that?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,37],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting-surgery","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}