{"id":2515,"date":"2013-07-16T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2013-07-16T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:03:38","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/le-tour-de-fleece-2013-day-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2013: Day Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exciting breakaway stage today for the cyclists, with a fair bit of attacking of the General Classification too. Another hot day here today, I am not very good at the heat! I would prefer it if it was a bit cooler over night, I shall keep hoping!<\/p>\n

I finished plying my longdraw singles. The last skein is chain-plyed, and as expected this is the lumpiest of the lot. Chain-plying has a tendency to magnify thick and thin sections because of the way it is constructed. I think this is the least favourite of my plying experiments.<\/p>\n

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I am looking forward to them drying properly so I can have a go knitting them. I am planning to try some different stitch patterns and different tensions if I have enough yarn, to get a feel of how these yarns behave.<\/p>\n

Today’s coin is a Chinese 1 Yi Yuan, for no reason other than that it is pretty \ud83d\ude42 Apologies to today’s winner Rui Costa, I don’t have a Portuguese coin.<\/p>\n

Another fun discovery of the day is the Australian programme Taste le Tour<\/a>, fun recipes and info about food in the different areas of France that the Tour is cycling through \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exciting breakaway stage today for the cyclists, with a fair bit of attacking of the General Classification too. Another hot day here today, I am not very good at the heat! I would prefer it if it was a bit cooler over night, I shall keep hoping! I finished plying my longdraw singles. 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-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-Ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}