{"id":277,"date":"2012-01-13T00:06:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fallingblox.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2012-01-13T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:06:56","slug":"52-pickup-pattern-up-for-sale-on-ravelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"52 Pickup pattern up for sale on Ravelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"282\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?attachment_id=282\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?fit=1600%2C1307&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1307\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NEX-5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1326404535&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;27&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"52 Pickup on Shoji Screen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?fit=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?fit=660%2C539&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-282\" title=\"52 Pickup on Shoji Screen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?resize=300%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?resize=1024%2C836&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Cards-on-Screen.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been about 7 months since I started this project. Much of the pattern had already been designed even then, but I couldn&#8217;t release the pattern until I had a sample &#8212; and the sample was going to take months to make. Consider that I have a day-job, and given my weekly time constraints I was able to get a single card repeat (one of 18) done each week. If I&#8217;d been able to work on it non-stop, it would have taken 4.5 months to finish. But also consider that my book came out in October &#8212; so I was working on this project at the same time as I was finalizing my book. I also had several other projects going at the same time, some of which have had progress made on them and some of which have not. So it&#8217;s taken more than 4.5 months to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>This is made from Regia 4-ply; I was really hoping to get through it with 3 skeins of white and 2 skeins each of red and black. But I ran out of black and white within a few repeats of the end, so that hope was dashed. The red I ran out of less than 10 rows from the end &#8212; so in the end it&#8217;s 4 skeins of white and 3 skeins each of red and black &#8212; but there&#8217;s still plenty left of all three (especially the red). It turns out that there&#8217;s less red than black in the scarf, and I was at a loss to understand why, since the backs of the cards are almost exactly equal in all 3 colors, and there are the same number of red and black cards. But someone astutely observed that the hearts and diamonds don&#8217;t take up as many stitches as the clubs and spades. Of course! It&#8217;s so obvious once someone figures it out.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re probably interested in knowing where to get yourself one. I&#8217;m willing to take on knitting another one for the right person who can afford a high 4-figure price for it, but until that person comes along you&#8217;re just going to have to knit it yourself. I&#8217;ve put it up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/52-pickup\" target=\"_blank\">for sale on Ravelry<\/a> at $14. I know it&#8217;s a high price for a pattern, but it&#8217;s 115 pages long and I&#8217;ve already told you how long it took me to make it. Rest assured, you don&#8217;t need all 115 pages in any given project, and you only need to print off 3 at a time. There is no plan to make this available in print form &#8212; it&#8217;s just too long as a single pattern to be distributed any way other than digitally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about 7 months since I started this project. Much of the pattern had already been designed even then, but I couldn&#8217;t release the pattern until I had a sample &#8212; and the sample was going to take months to make. Consider that I have a day-job, and given my weekly time constraints I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/?p=277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">52 Pickup pattern up for sale on Ravelry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-knitting","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eKU9-4t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingblog.double-knitting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}