{"id":730,"date":"2016-05-30T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:52:29","slug":"first-peacocks-now-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"First peacocks, now butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my little collection of animals continues! After the <a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/11\/peacock-at-the-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock at the Beach Shawl<\/a> in April, I published Butterflies in the Sunset Shawl today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-733\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/full_small.jpg\" alt=\"Full_small\" width=\"400\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just like the Peacock Shawl , it is knit in Caterpillargreen Yarns Shawl Stripes &#8211; I&#8217;m still madly in love with the yarn and I love that it works just as well for shawls that are not triangular.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy the tech-edited and test-knit pattern on Ravelry, and soon also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveknitting.com\/de\/indie-designer-strickmuster\/?designer_name=26920\" target=\"_blank\">Loveknitting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patternfish.com\/catalogs\/1-patternfish-main?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;text_search=Tanja+Luescher&amp;list_type=large_badge&amp;gauge_min=&amp;gauge_max=&amp;size_min=&amp;size_max=&amp;inches=yes\" target=\"_blank\">Patternfish<\/a>. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/butterfly-in-the-sunset-shawl\" target=\"_blank\">Ravelry<\/a>, receive 25 % off from now until June 5th, end of day (Switzerland time). No coupon code needed, just put the pattern in your cart \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Size:<\/strong> 145 cm [57\u201d] wingspan, 67 cm [26.5\u201d] deep<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gauge:<\/strong> 22 sts = 10 cm [4\u201d] in stockinette stitch after blocking<br \/>\n(Gauge is not vital for this project, but it will affect the size of the FO and yardage.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><br \/>\nCaterpillargreen Yarns MCN Shawl Stripes (170 g [6 oz], 548 m [599 yd], 70 % superwash merino, 20 % cashmere, 10% nylon), 1 hank size XL, colorway Ocean Sunset<br \/>\nOr approx. 535 m [585 yd] fingering weight yarn of your choice<br \/>\n4 mm [US 6] 80 cm (32\u201d) circular needle, or a size that gives you a fabric you like.<br \/>\n(Designer\u2019s note: I\u2019m a loose knitter, so you may want to try bigger needles if you aren\u2019t.)<br \/>\n4 stitch markers, 2 of Color A, 2 (preferably open or lockable) of Color B<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skills needed:<\/strong><br \/>\nGarter tab cast on (explained in the pattern)<br \/>\nIncreases (yo, central double increase; see Abbreviations on page 8-9 and photo tutorial for cdi on page 10)<br \/>\nDecreases (k2tog, ssk, k3tog, sssk, central double decrease, p2tog, ssp; see Abbreviations on page 8-9 )<br \/>\nA few WS rows of the Butterfly Chart are patterned.<br \/>\nKnitting on a border (explained and tutorial linked in the pattern)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the pattern \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, my little collection of animals continues! After the Peacock at the Beach Shawl in April, I published Butterflies in the Sunset Shawl today \ud83d\ude42 Just like the Peacock Shawl , it is knit in Caterpillargreen Yarns Shawl Stripes &#8211; I&#8217;m still madly in love with the yarn and I love that it works just &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=730\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First peacocks, now butterflies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","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":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}