{"id":2171,"date":"2012-07-03T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2012-07-03T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T21:39:27","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2012: Day Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are still half a day behind watching the cyclists, but are having a lovely time watching all the beautiful Belgian and now French countryside, and interesting buildings. It really does work as a wonderful advert for visiting that part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I have started the plying on my alpaca \/ merino. One skein done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2172\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-four\/tdfday04alpacamerino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino.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;1341340194&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;0.0769230769231&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TdFDay04AlpacaMerino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2172\" title=\"TdFDay04AlpacaMerino\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay04AlpacaMerino.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was actually using the three bobbins worth of singles that I spun before the tour started. It is a 3ply but I haven&#8217;t measured how much it weighs or how many metres I have yet, I shall do that when it has finished drying.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s coin is a French 1 Euro as the tour has now entered France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are still half a day behind watching the cyclists, but are having a lovely time watching all the beautiful Belgian and now French countryside, and interesting buildings. It really does work as a wonderful advert for visiting that part of the world. I have started the plying on my alpaca \/ merino. One skein [&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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-z1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}