{"id":1575,"date":"2011-07-02T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2011-07-02T18:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T17:34:45","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2011: Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you have probably gathered it has been a busy few months here! I can’t believe it has been more than 6 months since I last posted. I have been doing a bit of knitting and spinning in amongst everything else, and even taking some photos of it all. It will probably take me a while to sort all the photos out and catch up. I have decided to take part in the Tour de Fleece<\/a> again this year, spinning along while watching the Tour de France<\/a>, always good fun, and hopefully a good way to get me back into the blogging.<\/p>\n

So, onward!<\/p>\n

This year I am spinning yet more merino silk, it is lovely stuff, how can I resist (well it should be fairly clear by now that I can’t resist). This blend is 70% merino, 30% silk, from Wingham Wool Works<\/a>. I think it is a fabulous colour, but am a little concerned that it wouldn’t be good near my face, so I am going to spin a fine-ish 3ply and make some socks.<\/p>\n

Here is the progress before I started spinning today:<\/p>\n

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And here is the bobbin at the end of today’s spinning:<\/p>\n

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It is not terribly consistent (the racing got a bit exciting in parts!), but I am enjoying it, and hoping I will improve with practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you have probably gathered it has been a busy few months here! I can’t believe it has been more than 6 months since I last posted. I have been doing a bit of knitting and spinning in amongst everything else, and even taking some photos of it all. It will probably take me a […]<\/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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}