{"id":1143,"date":"2010-01-04T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2010-01-03T23:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:02:39","slug":"yet-more-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/yet-more-fibre\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While ordering yet more stuffing for the toy elephants from <a title=\"World of Wool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwool.co.uk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">World of Wool<\/a> a few other little goodies slipped into my basket.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really interesting mixture of merino, brown alpaca, camel, and silk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/yet-more-fibre\/merinoalpacacamelsilk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1259770284&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1144 aligncenter\" title=\"MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MerinoAlpacaCamelSilk.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got 300g so that should be plenty to be playing with. I might experiment with dyeing some too, as I think the different fibres will take the dye differently and create interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>And these are all merino, 100g of each. I couldn&#8217;t resist the lovely colours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/yet-more-fibre\/worldofwoolmerino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1259770314&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WorldOfWoolMerino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1145 aligncenter\" title=\"WorldOfWoolMerino\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WorldOfWoolMerino.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I certainly have lots of lovely things to keep me busy in 2010 (and probably for several years to come!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While ordering yet more stuffing for the toy elephants from World of Wool a few other little goodies slipped into my basket. This is a really interesting mixture of merino, brown alpaca, camel, and silk. I got 300g so that should be plenty to be playing with. I might experiment with dyeing some too, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}