{"id":6877,"date":"2015-12-03T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2015-12-03T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T23:57:25","slug":"a-gift-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/12\/a-gift-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Way back in October<\/a> I told you I was knitting, but I never told you what it was. I’m quite sure my nephew and his wife don’t read my blog, and this isn’t a Christmas present anyway, so I feel safe in revealing this gift. They are expecting their first child, and have remarkably decided not to learn their baby’s gender. <\/p>\n

Earth friendliness and generosity are values that are important to this young couple, so I chose an organic US-grown cotton, sold by a company that donates a percentage of its profits to charity. Although I do have a few more skeins, the end above is how much I had left of the skein I was working with when I bound off the blanket. Close, huh?<\/p>\n

Here’s the final result.<\/p>\n

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The family lives in Dallas, so even though the baby is due any day, I didn’t want to make a thick blanket, but rather one that I thought would work in their climate. Although I had everything done except weaving in the ends (my least favorite part of knitting) almost a month ago, the blanket finally got totally finished and mailed yesterday. <\/p>\n

I also made great progress at the loom, getting 2\/3 of KG’s charcoal weft woven for her short wrap.<\/p>\n

\"KG's<\/a> <\/p>\n

I really like the contrast of the white weft and the charcoal weft, and the fact that KG chose charcoal instead of black. I think it makes the warp colors pop in a much softer way than a stark black would. Nice choice, K!<\/p>\n

I’m thrilled to report that my plumbing issue, which I thought would be a costly, time-consuming nightmare, turned out to be not bad. (I lost sleep over that for nothing.) The plumber was here for a total of 40 minutes to completely fix it! An ancient copper fitting had corroded and was leaking, and he was able to sweat it off, replace a section of pipe, and sweat the new piece back in place. WHEW!! So much relief! And not too hard on my checkbook, either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Way back in October I told you I was knitting, but I never told you what it was. I’m quite sure my nephew and his wife don’t read my blog, and this isn’t a Christmas present anyway, so I feel safe in revealing this gift. They are expecting their first child, and have remarkably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[530,129,568,535],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","tag-knitting","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}