{"id":605,"date":"2013-08-07T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T03:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2018-05-14T01:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T01:58:45","slug":"a-gift-for-a-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"A gift for a prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many readers are likely aware, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and Princess Catherine) recently had their first child. New Zealand presented a gift of a merino shawl to the new family. We were very excited to see this news as the shawl had been created by a local fibre artist, Cynthia Read. The shawl was hand spun and knitted based on a design by Margaret Stove. Cynthia estimated it took around 270 hours to complete!<\/p>\n<p>As well as being an amazing piece of work and certainly a gift for a prince, we were delighted to notice that the yarn had been spun on a Rose! We are very proud to have had a connection (although a very small one \ud83d\ude42 ) to the shawl Cynthia has made and this significant gift from New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NZ's royal baby gift revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/NZs-royal-baby-gift-revealed\/tabid\/309\/articleID\/305962\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">TV3 news coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/cynthia_read_shawl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-606\" title=\"Cynthia Read and her knitted shawl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/cynthia_read_shawl.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Read and her knitted shawl\" width=\"500\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Read and her knitted shawl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-607\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/cynthia_read_knitting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-607\" title=\"Cynthia Read carrying out the finishing touches + Rose!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/cynthia_read_knitting.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia Read carrying out the finishing touches + Rose!\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Read carrying out the finishing touches + Rose!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Cynthia, your work is fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many readers are likely aware, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and Princess Catherine) recently had their first child. New Zealand presented a gift of a merino shawl to the new family. We were very excited to see this news as the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majacraft.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}