{"id":2214,"date":"2012-07-15T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2012-07-15T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T17:58:16","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-fifteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-fifteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2012: Day Fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday today to my mother-in-law Monica! She has got a new tapestry loom for her birthday which I am looking forward to seeing. We have had a nice day here catching up with the cycling, and in my case doing a bit of spinning. Rather shocking to hear that all the punctures today were caused by tacks on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I plied up my merino \/ silk, and had a bit of a winding failure, so this is now in two skeins. I am planning on making socks with this, and the two skeins are roughly equal so actually having two rather than one isn&#8217;t a crisis \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-fifteen\/tdfday15merinosilk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk.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;1342378257&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;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TdFDay15MerinoSilk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2215\" title=\"TdFDay15MerinoSilk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15MerinoSilk.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s coin is a German 50 Cent for Andr\u00e9 Greipel&#8217;s win yesterday, I&#8217;m afraid I don&#8217;t have any Spanish coins for Luis-Leon Sanchez&#8217;s win today.<\/p>\n<p>I also finished weighing and measuring the alpaca \/merino I finished spinning last week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2216\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/le-tour-de-fleece-2012-day-fifteen\/tdfday15alpacamerino\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino.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;1342365229&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;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TdFDay15AlpacaMerino\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2216\" title=\"TdFDay15AlpacaMerino\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TdFDay15AlpacaMerino.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a total of 1025g, and 2208m, and it is a bit thicker than a 4ply knitting weight. I am planning to knit the <a title=\"Vitamin D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/vitamin-d\" target=\"_blank\">Vitamin D cardigan<\/a>, having seen those knitted by Joanne and Chrissy at knitting group. I should have plenty of yarn, and even have enough to make it a bit longer if I would like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday today to my mother-in-law Monica! She has got a new tapestry loom for her birthday which I am looking forward to seeing. We have had a nice day here catching up with the cycling, and in my case doing a bit of spinning. Rather shocking to hear that all the punctures today were [&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-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-zI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","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=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}