{"id":1218,"date":"2010-02-11T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T14:09:13","slug":"more-fibrey-aquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/more-fibrey-aquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"More fibrey aquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

World of Wool<\/a> had a 10% off everything January sale which I didn’t quite manage to resist. These lovely goodies arrived last week.<\/p>\n

First 200g of 70% Bluefaced leicester, 30% tussah silk.<\/p>\n

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I am planning to dye this and then experiment with spinning some 3ply for socks I think.<\/p>\n

Next 200g of 70% 23 micron merino, 30% tussah silk.<\/p>\n

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Again I am planning to dye this and spin some 3ply for socks. I am interested to compare it to the bfl and see how they differ in taking the dye, spinning and how well they wear as socks.<\/p>\n

I am hoping that the silk will add strength to the wool, but without drastically reducing the elasticity. That is the plan at any rate, we shall see!<\/p>\n

Lastly I got 300g of 70% 18.5 micron merino, 30% mulberry silk.<\/p>\n

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This is the supersoft version of the other merino \/ silk mix.<\/p>\n

I think I will try spinning this one first and then dyeing it. I think I will try and spin a 2ply lace weight, and then make it into some kind of a shawl. I am hoping that writing my thoughts down here I will remember what I was thinking of doing with it all by the time I get round to spinning and knitting it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World of Wool had a 10% off everything January sale which I didn’t quite manage to resist. These lovely goodies arrived last week. First 200g of 70% Bluefaced leicester, 30% tussah silk. I am planning to dye this and then experiment with spinning some 3ply for socks I think. Next 200g of 70% 23 micron […]<\/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-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-jE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}