{"id":57,"date":"2007-02-11T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:23:37","slug":"dragon-hide-blanket-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2007\/02\/11\/dragon-hide-blanket-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Hide Blanket (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DragonHideBlanket\"<\/a><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 LLD Fabrication
\nYarn:<\/span>\u00a0 Dale of Norway Baby Ull
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knit
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 February 11, 2007.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So I bought a bunch of Dale Baby Ull, in vibrant colours — canary yellow, carrot orange, and leaf green.\u00a0 I let it lounge in my office for a while, to tell me what it wanted to be.\u00a0 On the one hand, I understand babies like vibrant colours; on the other, I know that parents can be put off by violent colour schemes \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

Presently, it said “dragon hide” — you know, the layered scales of the fantastical dragon beast.\u00a0 (Not all of them are scary!).\u00a0 And then it was a matter of figuring out how to get a decent layered-scale effect.\u00a0 I felt intarsia would be too flat and chunky looking.\u00a0 Crochet… I could not get beyond angry granny squares.\u00a0 So, I decided on entrelac, which provides the woven-strip look.\u00a0 I chose to do the main body in stockinette, to give it a smooth finish.\u00a0 I did the edging triangles in garter stitch so that they’d be textured and would lie flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Preblocked<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		The main body, entrelace, before blocking it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Pre-block<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/td>\n		Backside of the main body, before blocking it.\u00a0 It wasn’t clear to me which side was going to be the “front”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Whole<\/a><\/td>\nThe whole blanket, blocked, with edging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Whole<\/a><\/td>\nBack of the whole blanket, blocked, with edging.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Final<\/a><\/td>\nFinal blanket — blocked, with edging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Final<\/a><\/td>\nFinal blanket back — blocked, with edging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"The<\/a><\/td>\nThe well-dressed dragon!\u00a0 See — the edging is the spiny ridge, and the body of the blanket is composed of overlapping dragon scales!Or, it’s peas, corn & carrots.\u00a0 Whatever works for you!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 LLD Fabrication Yarn:\u00a0 Dale of Norway Baby Ull Method:\u00a0 Hand knit Completed:\u00a0 February 11, 2007. So I bought a bunch of Dale Baby Ull, in vibrant colours — canary yellow, carrot orange, and leaf green.\u00a0 I let it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DragonHideBlanket-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}