{"id":1593,"date":"2011-07-06T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:50:05","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2011: Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily I haven&#8217;t been involved in anything like the crashes that the cyclists have experienced today.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped my parents off at Heathrow this morning without a hitch, then came home and put some sealant round our upstairs tap which has been leaking, hopefully I have fixed it. Then made some good inroads into a work project this afternoon and watched the tour and spun this evening.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a good start on the third bobbin of merino\/silk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-five\/orangemerinosilkday5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5.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&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1309984916&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=\"OrangeMerinoSilkDay5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1594 aligncenter\" title=\"OrangeMerinoSilkDay5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/OrangeMerinoSilkDay5.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some fun suggestions on ravelry I shall be trying to use a different coin each day to demonstrate the yarn thickness. So I thought I would kick off with a french 1 Euro coin as it was rather pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily I haven&#8217;t been involved in anything like the crashes that the cyclists have experienced today. I dropped my parents off at Heathrow this morning without a hitch, then came home and put some sealant round our upstairs tap which has been leaking, hopefully I have fixed it. 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