{"id":99,"date":"2006-12-01T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T05:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-12-01T23:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T06:01:45","slug":"magic-star-knitted-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2006\/12\/01\/magic-star-knitted-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Star Knitted Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Magic Star Baby Quilt\" id=\"image100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/MagicStar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baby SI was due this week, but he was born almost 2 months ago! Praise the Lord, he was over 4 pounds and was able to come home from his out-of-town birthplace after a month in the NICU. This quilt was planned and begun by the time of his unexpected arrival, and then I was really motivated to finish it, as a coming-home present.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Illusion Knitting\" id=\"image101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/StarAnim.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This blanket was hand-knit with love, in an &#8220;Illusion&#8221; or &#8220;Shadow-knitting&#8221; technique, with simple stripes that reveal stars when viewed from an angle.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image103\" alt=\"Stitch detail\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/StarDetail.jpg\" \/>The secret is in the purl ridges strategically worked either in the foreground or background color. This is my biggest project to date, using 6 balls of yarn, knit in three panels joined with mattress stitch and a hand-tacked cotton flannel backing (love those little spacemen!) with hand-applied satin binding. The yarn is a cotton-wool blend for softness and warmth. Completed size is 32 x 40 inches, not including the binding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baby SI was due this week, but he was born almost 2 months ago! Praise the Lord, he was over <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}