{"id":2160,"date":"2012-06-30T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2012-06-30T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T20:34:19","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2012: Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the <a title=\"Tour de France\" href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.fr\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> has started today, and so that means the annual fun of spinning along while watching the cyclists and the lovely countryside has kicked off. We had fun watching the prologue in Li\u00e8ge this afternoon. I am spinning some lovely 80% alpaca, 20% merino from <a title=\"John Arbon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jarbon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Arbon<\/a>, bought at <a title=\"Unravel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.farnhammaltings.com\/news\/unravel\/748\/574\/96\/unravel_2012.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Unravel<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2161\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-one\/tdfday01alpacamerino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino.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;1341092002&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;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TdFDay01AlpacaMerino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2161\" title=\"TdFDay01AlpacaMerino\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TdFDay01AlpacaMerino.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s coin is an Italian 2 Euro coin to celebrate Fabian Cancellara winning the prologue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the Tour de France has started today, and so that means the annual fun of spinning along while watching the cyclists and the lovely countryside has kicked off. We had fun watching the prologue in Li\u00e8ge this afternoon. 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