{"id":521,"date":"2002-08-09T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/08\/blocked\/"},"modified":"2002-08-09T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2002-08-09T15:11:01","slug":"blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/08\/blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether to block my sweater pieces.  I&#8217;m done with the front and the back, and have been toying with the idea of sewing those together before starting the sleeves, mostly to double-check that it will fit.  But seeing as it&#8217;s chenille yarn, I&#8217;m not sure how to go about blocking it.  Will it flatten?  It&#8217;s acrylic &#8211; will the iron melt it?  I suppose I should test it on my swatch first, but that woud require patience&#8230;of which I&#8217;m in short supply lately.  Any knitters out there have any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide whether to block my sweater pieces. I&#8217;m done with the front and the back, and have been toying with the idea of sewing those together before starting the sleeves, mostly to double-check that it will fit. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}