{"id":5883,"date":"2011-01-10T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T08:14:17","slug":"rom-jens-christmas-stars-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/5883","title":{"rendered":"Rom & Jen’s Christmas Stars Throw"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finally finishing my mother in law’s Haruni shawl<\/a> while I was in Canada I was ready to get started on my next project.\u00a0 It was timed quite well as the project I had in mind called for yarn that I\u2019d have to buy in Canada, so my mom and I hopped in the car and set off to get my supplies. She liked the project too and got yarn to make the same thing for my sister for Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

The project was Red Heart’s Christmas Stars Throw<\/a> which I made for my father-in-law and his wife.\u00a0 I started it in October in Canada and finished it almost two weeks before Christmas.\u00a0 It took longer than I expected because of my unexpected surgery and a few other things that had come up that distracted me.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

It started by making the diamond pieces that make up the stars.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t difficult, just time consuming and it took a while to get them all done.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

Once I had all the diamond pieces made, over 180 of them, it was time to start putting them together.\u00a0 This is where things started to get difficult.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

The pattern says to start from the top right hand corner of the blanket when putting the pieces together.\u00a0 This turned out to be confusing and frustrating. It wasn\u2019t so bad in the beginning but once the blanket started getting a bit bigger, it was hard to tell where I was.\u00a0 There turned out to be more than one five-sided star that needed to be taken apart and fixed, and a few swear words to go along with it.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

Hoping she\u2019d learn from my frustration, I advised my mother to put hers together differently, making the stars first and then putting the larger pieces together. It seemed to take her less time and caused her a lot less grief, so the pattern instructions could really do with some changing.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there is any real purpose for them saying to put them together in that specific order.<\/p>\n

She did say it was still a pain to assemble, but not as bad<\/em> as it would have been trying to do it piece by piece from the top corner as I had done.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

I think doing the border was probably the easiest and most enjoyable part of the whole thing.\u00a0 That was probably because I started seeing the finished product.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best part of any craft project, I think.\u00a0 No matter how much you pull your hair out while making something, it\u2019s ALWAYS worth it, especially if it\u2019s a gift.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n

I was really pleased with the finished product and was glad that I went with more everyday colors than the full on Christmas red and green like the pattern called for.<\/p>\n

Oh, but the assmeply aside, ya know the most<\/em> frustrating part of the whole thing?\u00a0 The fact that it didn\u2019t get to them in time!<\/p>\n

During my recovery from surgery, I worked day and night getting the blanket done so we had enough time to get it sent out before Christmas.\u00a0 It was going to France so we figured a week to ten days would give us enough time.\u00a0 It was mailed out on December 17th and arrived in France on December 21st.\u00a0 Sounds good, right?<\/p>\n

WRONG!<\/p>\n

It arrived alright, at a drop off point in a village 25 minutes away from my in laws.\u00a0 Even that wouldn\u2019t be so bad if someone had bothered to let them know it was there, which they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 So their Christmas present sat in a tobacconist over the Christmas holiday.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n

When it hadn\u2019t arrived by Christmas, my husband looked it up and saw that it had been dropped there on the 21st. There was collective swearing among us all at that moment.\u00a0 So now my FIL and going to put in a complaint on his end, as we will do on ours.<\/p>\n

Oh well, they did end up getting it eventually and that\u2019s all that matters… and that they liked it, that helped too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After finally finishing my mother in law’s Haruni shawl while I was in Canada I was ready to get started on my next project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,55,75,65,525,547],"class_list":["post-5883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","tag-christmas","tag-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-family","tag-jenny","tag-romke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5886,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}