{"id":3726,"date":"2015-01-19T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:34:22","slug":"crafty-pursuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Pursuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff\"<\/a>I haven’t got off to a roaring start on my resolution\u00a0<\/del> to-do list item regarding writing more, at least not as far as this blog is concerned, though after the daily Advent calendar posts, I imagine that’s something of a relief. I am doing rather better on most of the rest of the list though and will be posting an update about that soon\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

As\u00a0far as my crafty pursuits are concerned, I am making good progress on the Lightning Thief MKAL<\/a>, kindly gifted me by my Eviller Twin<\/a>\u00a0and making use of some rather nice yarn I’ve had in my stash for aaaaaages.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1174\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s quite hard to reproduce purple accurately in photos and the yarn is a bit darker than it looks here, but if I hadn’t lightened it a bit it would just look black. It’s called Blackcurrant Bush and is a deep blackcurrant with greeny teal bits. The beads are Purple Rainbow so stand out beautifully in gold, purple and blue hues when the light hits them (again, hard to see in the pic) and there are squillions of them. I’m rather liking this project \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In other crafty news, I finally blocked the Glasgow Rose Stole<\/a>\u00a0that I made eons ago. The border is knitted on at the end and I’d dropped a stitch in a couple of places along the edge, which resulted in some major and minor unravelling along the join and needed lots of fiddly repair.\u00a0I put off doing it for ages (finished the shawl in October…2013), so I’m quite pleased that’s another job done.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The second Renaissance Blanky<\/a> I’ve been making on commission for a friend was finished, but\u00a0now isn’t, since I had 5 balls of yarn left and my friend wanted it a bit bigger anyway, so I’m 1\/3rd of the way through the additional 15 squares that will take it from an 8 x 6 to a 9 x 7 square throw. The nice, light turquoise makes it a nice project for working in low light.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"I think my eyes are starting to feel their age and I find it harder to see in low light than once I did. To this end, at the engineering exhibition my DH took us to yesterday (where he just took pictures and somehow I ended up spending loads of money), I<\/del> we bought a rather funky Retro floor standing lamp for\u00a0people with failing eyesight<\/del> crafting\/reading.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Regular readers\u00a0may also have noticed that I have made the font size of this blog slightly larger, so that you oldies with failing eyesight<\/del>\u00a0regular followers can read more easily \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t got off to a roaring start on my resolution\u00a0 to-do list item regarding writing more, at least not as far as this blog is concerned, though after the daily Advent calendar posts, I imagine that’s something of a relief. I am doing rather better on most of the rest of the list though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[310,361,360],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-knitting-projects","tag-blanket","tag-finishing","tag-lightning-thief-mkal"],"yoast_head":"\nCrafty Pursuits - Ania M<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crafty Pursuits - Ania M\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I haven’t got off to a roaring start on my resolution\u00a0 to-do list item regarding writing more, at least not as far as this blog is concerned, though after the daily Advent calendar posts, I imagine that’s something of a relief. I am doing rather better on most of the rest of the list though […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ania M\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ania\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ania\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ania\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3\"},\"headline\":\"Crafty Pursuits\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":439,\"commentCount\":5,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png\",\"keywords\":[\"blanket\",\"finishing\",\"Lightning Thief MKAL\"],\"articleSection\":[\"All Posts\",\"Knitting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/\",\"name\":\"Crafty Pursuits - Ania M\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/crafty-pursuits\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Crafty Pursuits\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ania M\",\"description\":\"A thing of beauty is a joy forever\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3\",\"name\":\"Ania\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ania\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aniam.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/adminam\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Crafty Pursuits - Ania M","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Crafty Pursuits - Ania M","og_description":"I haven’t got off to a roaring start on my resolution\u00a0 to-do list item regarding writing more, at least not as far as this blog is concerned, though after the daily Advent calendar posts, I imagine that’s something of a relief. I am doing rather better on most of the rest of the list though […]","og_url":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/","og_site_name":"Ania M","article_published_time":"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Ania","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ania","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/"},"author":{"name":"Ania","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3"},"headline":"Crafty Pursuits","datePublished":"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/"},"wordCount":439,"commentCount":5,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png","keywords":["blanket","finishing","Lightning Thief MKAL"],"articleSection":["All Posts","Knitting"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/","url":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/","name":"Crafty Pursuits - Ania M","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png","datePublished":"2015-01-19T14:34:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/keep-calm-and-do-some-crafty-stuff-257x300.png"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/crafty-pursuits\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Crafty Pursuits"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"Ania M","description":"A thing of beauty is a joy forever","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e640dba21b540dabce7b16e2252b4ce3","name":"Ania","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a21898477a24d409ee6484bbe79b46a8ccf777725c989353e81a731410fe8b73?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"Ania"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/aniam.co.uk"],"url":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/author\/adminam\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iMGd-Y6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aniam.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}