{"id":15861,"date":"2015-11-12T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=15861"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:31:59","slug":"how-to-fold-a-triangular-shawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/how-to-fold-a-triangular-shawl\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fold a Triangular Shawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawl-folding-how-to.png\" alt=\"how to fold a triangular shawl by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been bitten by the shawl-crocheting bug, it can be easy to build up quite a collection! As part of\u00a0the\u00a0Accessories CAL (in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\" target=\"_blank\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a>), I thought now\u00a0would be a good time to discuss how you store your shawls. I used to hang mine in my closet, but I quickly ran out of hanging space, and now I prefer to keep them all neatly folded in a plastic storage box.<\/p>\n<p>Triangular shawls, in particular, can be a bit tricky to fold for storage, so here&#8217;s my method to turn any size and style of triangular shawl into a tidy rectangle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Hold\u00a0your shawl with the point facing down:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawl-folding-how-to_step1.png\" alt=\"how to fold a triangular shawl by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Bring the top left corner across to the top right corner:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawl-folding-how-to_step2.png\" alt=\"how to fold a triangular shawl by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Bring the bottom point up to the top left corner:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawl-folding-how-to_step3.png\" alt=\"how to fold a triangular shawl by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Bring the top right point across to the top left corner:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawl-folding-how-to_step4.png\" alt=\"how to fold a triangular shawl by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it:\u00a0a perfect rectangle. If your shawl is large, you may want to fold it in half again before you store it (but I think you can figure out how to do that without a photo&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So now you can go from this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shawls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawls_unfolded.jpg\" alt=\"Cozy Mesh and Palm Leaves shawl crochet patterns by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>to this tidy little stack of crocheted loveliness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shawls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/shawls_folded.jpg\" alt=\"Cozy Mesh and Palm Leaves shawl crochet patterns by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; in case you&#8217;d like to make a few more shawls so you can practice your folding technique &#8211; you can find all my shawl patterns <a href=\"\/shawls\">here<\/a>\u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been bitten by the shawl-crocheting bug, it can be easy to build up quite a collection! As part of\u00a0the\u00a0Accessories CAL (in the PlanetJune Ravelry group), I thought now\u00a0would be a good time to discuss how you store your shawls. I used to hang mine in my closet, but I quickly ran out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}