{"id":757,"date":"2011-08-24T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-08-24T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:25:59","slug":"second-connector-piece-done-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Second Connector Piece Done!  (Finally!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?attachment_id=768\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-768\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"With both connectors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-96x52.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-31x17.jpg 31w, https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-38x20.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/With-both-connectors-390x215.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a>My plan had been to do the second connector piece for the sample shawl over the weekend but twice I managed to mess it up badly enough that I had to cut off big chucks.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time I joined the piece to the wrong side of the square, but I didn&#8217;t realize it until I got to the point where I was about to start joining it to the second triangle.\u00c2\u00a0 So I cut off everything and started over.<\/p>\n<p>The second time I got the square part right, but I shifted all the joins on the triangle side over.\u00c2\u00a0 Both the triangle and the square have a series of open picots on the sides that are joined to the connector, but I only need to use every other one.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately I started off with the wrong one when connecting the triangle piece.\u00c2\u00a0 (Nevermind that I had done it right the first time and had that right in front of me as an example.)<\/p>\n<p>What was particularly annoying was that I didn&#8217;t discover these mistakes until I&#8217;d tatted the entire length of the connector so I ended up having a lot of wasted tatting.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess that shows what a good idea it was to be making this little sample piece rather than trying it out on the actual shawl pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plan had been to do the second connector piece for the sample shawl over the weekend but twice I managed to mess it up badly enough that I had to cut off big chucks.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time I joined the piece to the wrong side of the square, but I didn&#8217;t realize it until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-on-big-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}