{"id":1375,"date":"2010-07-24T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2010-07-24T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T14:12:00","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-days-seventeen-to-twenty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/le-tour-de-fleece-days-seventeen-to-twenty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece: Days Seventeen to Twenty-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good: My neck is loads better, and is very nearly back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Bad: Some nasty insect has bitten me on the ankle and it has swollen up horribly over my ankle and down my foot, and developed a nasty looking huge orange blister, so it looks like I have an under-ripe cherry tomato stuck to my ankle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/le-tour-de-fleece-days-seventeen-to-twenty-two\/bittenfoot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" 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;1279978635&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BittenFoot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1381 aligncenter\" title=\"BittenFoot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BittenFoot.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good: The swelling is better than yesterday, I can now walk. Yeah! It is also not nearly as painful, I now only feel like I am being stabbed with hot needles for most of the time rather than all of the time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Bad: I can&#8217;t treadle the spinning wheel, and I can&#8217;t drive the car \ud83d\ude41 I don&#8217;t have enough range of motion to tilt my foot up and down, and at the moment I can&#8217;t even get my foot onto the clutch peddle let alone change gear (though it was probably greatly amusing watching me try).<\/p>\n<p>Good: With all the sitting and not spinning time I have managed to do quite a lot of my City and Guilds class homework, although progress has been hampered by feeling a bit grotty.<\/p>\n<p>Bad: I probably wont be able to get to the class tomorrow unless the swelling goes down enough for me to drive the car.<\/p>\n<p>Good: I did manage a bit of spinning before the swelling got too bad, nearly done on bobbin 5 of the merino \/ silk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1382\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/24\/le-tour-de-fleece-days-seventeen-to-twenty-two\/sunshinemerinosilkday22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22.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;1279824890&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SunshineMerinoSilkDay22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1382 aligncenter\" title=\"SunshineMerinoSilkDay22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SunshineMerinoSilkDay22.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad: I really wanted to finish this before Knit Nation next week so I have all my bobbins clear. So I had better hurry up and get better soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good: My neck is loads better, and is very nearly back to normal. Bad: Some nasty insect has bitten me on the ankle and it has swollen up horribly over my ankle and down my foot, and developed a nasty looking huge orange blister, so it looks like I have an under-ripe cherry tomato stuck [&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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}