{"id":1694,"date":"2011-07-20T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-07-20T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T15:40:26","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-seventeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-seventeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2011: Day Seventeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I plied up my first bobbin of alpaca\/merino today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-seventeen\/alpacamerinoday17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" 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;1311179171&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;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AlpacaMerinoDay17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1695 aligncenter\" title=\"AlpacaMerinoDay17\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AlpacaMerinoDay17.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love how this is coming out. It isn&#8217;t totally even, I spun it rather quickly, and without as much attention to detail as I used on my previous yarn, but it was good fun \ud83d\ude42 Even if I did have to spin it straight out of the plastic bag to avoid becoming covered in it.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s coin is a New York state quarter, the other half has a collection of US state quarters so you might be seeing a few more of them over the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I shall skein this bobbin up and measure it, and hopefully if I have time get started on plying the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I plied up my first bobbin of alpaca\/merino today: I love how this is coming out. It isn&#8217;t totally even, I spun it rather quickly, and without as much attention to detail as I used on my previous yarn, but it was good fun \ud83d\ude42 Even if I did have to spin it straight out [&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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}