{"id":2487,"date":"2013-07-09T23:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T22:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2013-07-09T23:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T22:43:56","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2013: Day Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some beautiful Breton scenery for the cyclists today. I haven’t quite caught up with today’s stage yet, but it is past my bedtime so I shall watch a bit more while I eat my breakfast in the morning.<\/p>\n

I have been attempting to put into practice some of the tips I picked up from the carding DVD and I think my rolags are definitely more even. I had been having some trouble with stair-steps in them before. It certainly makes it easier to spin a more even yarn when the preparation is better. Still a lot of practising to do.<\/p>\n

Here is the start of my second bobbin of longdraw.<\/p>\n

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Today’s coin is a German 2 Euro to celebrate Marcel Kittel’s second win of this year’s Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some beautiful Breton scenery for the cyclists today. I haven’t quite caught up with today’s stage yet, but it is past my bedtime so I shall watch a bit more while I eat my breakfast in the morning. I have been attempting to put into practice some of the tips I picked up from the […]<\/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-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}