{"id":2451,"date":"2013-07-01T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2013-07-01T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:53:53","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2013: Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another exciting day of racing around the beautiful scenery of Corsica. Some of the roads stuck to the side of the mountains looked a bit scary though!<\/p>\n

I have finished my first yarn of the Tour!<\/p>\n

\"DayThreeRainbowMerino\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a 3ply merino, approximately commercial 4ply \/ sock weight. I was so keen to take photos that it is still a little damp \ud83d\ude42 I am very pleased with how it has come out and am looking forward to knitting with it, I think it will become socks, but I haven’t yet measured the metreage to check that I will have enough. I did have a bit of trouble with my second single snapping a few times as I was plying. I could definitely tell that that was the one where I was still getting back into the zone after a bit of a spinning break. I think overall though the yarn should be strong enough to knit with.<\/p>\n

Today’s coin is an old Belgian 1 Franc for Jan Bakelants who is still in the yellow jersey, and still looking rather surprised! (apologies to Simon Gerrans today’s stage winner, I don’t have any Ozzie coins)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another exciting day of racing around the beautiful scenery of Corsica. Some of the roads stuck to the side of the mountains looked a bit scary though! I have finished my first yarn of the Tour! This is a 3ply merino, approximately commercial 4ply \/ sock weight. I was so keen to take photos that […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-Dx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}