{"id":42,"date":"2009-09-20T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-09-20T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:22:00","slug":"hand-knit-wedding-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Hand-knit Wedding Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>***UPDATE***<br \/>\nSee my wedding veil <strong><a title=\"Knitted Veil in Action\" href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=645\" target=\"_blank\">in action<\/a><\/strong>! And also <strong><a title=\"Veil, Blocked!\" href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=105\" target=\"_blank\">blocked <\/a><\/strong>and drying. It is complete and completely gorgeous. I honestly couldn&#8217;t be happier with the way it turned out and it&#8217;s received several compliments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rbenaim\/sets\/72157623322311067\/\" target=\"_blank\">Progress pictures on Flickr<\/a><br \/>\n****<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images4cf.ravelry.com\/uploads\/jaeeleutheria\/8083675\/JohnsonRigby2_094_medium.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 333px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images4cf.ravelry.com\/uploads\/jaeeleutheria\/8083675\/JohnsonRigby2_094_medium.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/jaeeleutheria\/snow-peacock\">Image source: jaeeleutheria\/ Ravelry<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>No idea why, but I was playing on Ravelry* like I tend to do a few times a week.  I am already going to be knitting a garter for Miss Abby&#8217;s wedding at the end of October, so I was looking up other wedding projects. And stumbled across veils. Holy smokes, how awesome would that be?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tonks-knits.livejournal.com\/28142.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">above pattern<\/span><\/a> (LJ link) is my favorite one as it can later be used as a wrap, or a home decoration, and definitely an heirloom for future Benaim-Fletcher generations. It can even be sewn together and used as a small lap blanket\/ baby blanket.<\/p>\n<p>Whatcha think?  I do have a concern with the weight, but already asked the pattern designer.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am a huge DIY fan and figure with over a year until the wedding and school ending for good in May, I should be able to actually complete it!  What have you made for your wedding\/ friends weddings?<\/p>\n<p>*<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\">Ravelry<\/a> is the greatest website known to knitters and crocheters.. it&#8217;s got a plethora of patterns and well, it&#8217;s the candy shop to fiber artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***UPDATE*** See my wedding veil in action! And also blocked and drying. It is complete and completely gorgeous. I honestly couldn&#8217;t be happier with the way it turned out and it&#8217;s received several compliments. Progress pictures on Flickr **** Image source: jaeeleutheria\/ Ravelry No idea why, but I was playing on Ravelry* like I tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,136,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-veil","category-wedding","category-wedding-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}