{"id":46,"date":"2008-02-22T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-02-22T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T13:52:00","slug":"another-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":">Another Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R77fH0xynII\/AAAAAAAAARc\/TFOP3poof8I\/s1600-h\/lunar+eclipse+2.20.08+empire+state+bldg..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R77fH0xynII\/AAAAAAAAARc\/TFOP3poof8I\/s320\/lunar+eclipse+2.20.08+empire+state+bldg..jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169814747787467906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Just a year ago I wrote about an eclipse here, so having another one this week made me realize I&#8217;ve been at this for a little over a year.  Naturally, I expected to do a lot more with this blog than I have!  The photos alone are a big learning curve for me, and I haven&#8217;t got the faintest idea how some of the bloggers I most admire do such interesting things with photos!<br \/><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrstar.com\/homepage\/x1300265491?pop=true&amp;url=x565320796#photo\">Empire State Building with Lunar Eclipse<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s snowing hard here, and the birds are singing so it&#8217;s quite a contrast.  I will have no photos because my camera is on a holiday in Colorado with my husband and older son, the homebrew master.  Trust me, it&#8217;s beautiful outside!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R77eykxynHI\/AAAAAAAAARU\/9ThVXd6ZwTc\/s1600-h\/Knitting+swallowtail01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/R77eykxynHI\/AAAAAAAAARU\/9ThVXd6ZwTc\/s200\/Knitting+swallowtail01.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169814382715247730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have finished the body of the Swallowtail shawl and am partway through the first larger border.  The next border is only 10 rows, and then I&#8217;ll switch yarn to the violet for the final border.  I really, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">really<\/span> want this done by March 1, so I can give it away to my friend before she has her reconstructive surgery.  I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m not sick of looking at this yarn yet since I&#8217;ve been fussing with it in various patterns since August!<span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interweaveknits.com\/Galleries\/bonus\/fall_2006\/swallowtail.asp\">(from Knitting Daily photo gallery<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernlace.co.uk\/\">Elizabeth Lovick<\/a> will be leading a KAL (knit along) on one of the yahoo groups, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/EZasPi\/?yguid=253898479\">EZ as Pi<\/a>.  Liz is the woman who sent me the wonderful Ronaldsay which I spun and knit into Chris&#8217;s gansey which should show up on the slide show to the right. I&#8217;m going to join this one, and have been looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shetland-wool-brokers.zetnet.co.uk\/\">Jamieson and Smith<\/a> site lusting after all the colors and weights of Shetland.  The KAL starts next week, so I should just go through my stash, especially since I do have some wonderful lace yarns&#8230;..they&#8217;re just not real shetland&#8230;..sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Just a year ago I wrote about an eclipse here, so having another one this week made me realize I&#8217;ve been at this for a little over a year. Naturally, I expected to do a lot more with this blog than I have! The photos alone are a big learning curve for me, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}