{"id":5576,"date":"2011-11-16T08:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unikatissima-e.riamore.eu\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:53:05","slug":"lace-knitters-advent-calendar-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=5576","title":{"rendered":"Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima_lc069_holly.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima's Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011\" width=\"195\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li111116\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\">pattern<\/a> is published! :)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time again: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\"><strong>unikatissima&#8217;s Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011<\/strong><\/a> can start on December 1 ;-))<br \/>\nThis time we will knit a shrug or a scarf\/a shawl, just as you like.<\/p>\n<p>This year everythings works a little different: the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\">pattern<\/a> consists of 6 little patterns that can be knitted in whatever order you like.<br \/>\nTo get the surprise feeling of an Advent calendar the 6 little patterns are named <em>block 1-6<\/em> and are meant to be selected by rolling a die :)<\/p>\n<p>But of course you can arrange the little patterns in advance to get a design that you like.<br \/>\nTo get inspiration you may want to look at the project descriptions (read more further below).<\/p>\n<p>You find the Advent calendar at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\">ravelry<\/a> (<a href=\"?p=5550\">where else?<\/a> ;-))<\/p>\n<ul>Part of it is a file that contains<\/p>\n<li>the terms of use (valid as well for the announcement file as for the actual pattern later)<\/li>\n<li>an instruction on how to make a shrug from a rectangle (with pictures) and<\/li>\n<li>descriptions for 4 projects I made with the pattern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My terms of use are also available in <a href=\"..\/d\/?page_id=18762\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project descriptions contain e.g. the sizes of the four items, the used yarns and how much I needed, the needle size etc.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\">ravelry member<\/a> you can use the links to the used yarns via my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-christmas-rose\/people\">project pages<\/a>, additionally you can look in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/unikatissima\">group unikatissima<\/a> what yarns were used for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-christmas-rose\">last Advent calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally you find on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\">same page<\/a> more PDF files, in fact the actual pattern with a chart and written instructions and a file with the German legend to the chart.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Addendum:<\/strong><\/em> I made all projects with a provisional cast-on for reasons of symmetry and today I eventually found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEfall05\/FEATfall05TT.html\">tutorial<\/a> for this :))<\/p>\n<p>I always have to cheat a little bit when picking up the stitches, because one &#8216;looses&#8217; one stitch. Cheating means here that I knit sometimes stitches together and sometimes I make 1 by picking up the loop that lies between the stitch just worked and the following stitch and knit into it to fake a yarn over. It just depends on how the original first row looks.<\/p>\n<p>If you have problems with my cheating technique, you can simply knit a couple of rows in garter stitch to &#8216;hide&#8217; every unevenness.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that everybody will enjoy the knitting again! :)<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"li111116\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-holly\">unikatissima&#8217;s Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011 (Lace Holly)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-christmas-rose\">Lace Knitter\u2019s Advent Calendar 2010 (Lace Christmas Rose)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lace-christmas-rose\/people\">Project pages for Lace Knitter\u2019s Advent Calendar 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\">ravelry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/unikatissima\">group unikatissima at ravelry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEfall05\/FEATfall05TT.html\">Provisional cast-on (Techniques with Theresa)<\/a><br \/>\n=> &#8216;mine&#8217; is the <em>Open, a.k.a. provisional, cast on<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here at unikatissima:<br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=4522\">Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"?page_id=4523\">unikatissima\u2019s Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2010<\/a><br \/>\nEntry: <a href=\"?p=5550\">ravelry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entry The pattern is published! :) It&#8217;s time again: unikatissima&#8217;s Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011 can start on December 1 ;-)) This time we will knit a shrug or a scarf\/a shawl, just as you like. This year everythings works a little different: the actual pattern consists of 6 little patterns that can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=5576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lace Knitters Advent Calendar 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,42,82],"tags":[389,390,464,468,378,287,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}