{"id":2737,"date":"2020-01-02T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2020-01-02T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:32:42","slug":"two-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/two-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New year &#8211; new pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped-1536x863.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/31-dolphins-cropped.jpg 1797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve has now designed more than a dozen illusion blankets. You can see them all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/bundles\/baby-blankets\">here<\/a>. This new one is amongst my favourites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p>There are many reasons why I particularly like it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dolphins appeal to people of all ages so it isn&#8217;t just a baby blanket <\/li><li> It is very easy<\/li><li>The dolphins are on a garter stitch background (Many of the blankets are alternate ridges of garter and stocking stitch.) <\/li><li>The outlines of the dolphins are very streamlined so it is easy to check that no stitches are out of place <\/li><li> It reminds me of yin yang  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The blanket in the photo is about  80 cm x 100 cm (32\u201d x 40\u201d). It could be made much bigger with a wider border all round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/dolphins-illusion-baby-blanket\">Buy the pattern<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"814\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/23-dolphins-cropped-814x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2740\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/23-dolphins-cropped-814x1024.jpg 814w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/23-dolphins-cropped-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/23-dolphins-cropped-768x967.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/23-dolphins-cropped.jpg 1009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><figcaption>When you look directly at illusion knitting you only see narrow stripes. The picture appears when you look from an angle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New year &#8211; new pattern. Steve has now designed more than a dozen illusion blankets. You can see them all here. This new one is amongst my favourites. There are many reasons why I particularly like it Dolphins appeal to people of all ages so it isn&#8217;t just a baby blanket It is very easy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5],"tags":[39,95,37,21,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}