{"id":713,"date":"2009-07-10T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T20:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2009-07-10T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:02:11","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-day-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece: Day Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cyclists did their biggest climb so far this tour, into Andorra, and I have crested my own little summit with my spinning.<\/p>\n

I have finished my first full\u00a0 bobbin of the tour. Yes, the grey Dorset is finally finished! Only two bobbins of the white to go and then I can ply it and see what it will be like as yarn.<\/p>\n

\"GreyDorsetDay7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In honour of the occaision I have been playing at making mosaics with Picasa 3<\/a>. So here is a recap of my progress on this yarn on the tour.<\/p>\n

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

And another, because if a thing is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.<\/p>\n

\"GreyDorset2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I ran my foot over with our side gate shortly after taking these photos while having a quick tidy up outside. It is a nice substantial gate. I am hopping around now (well not right now, since even with the laptop I can’t type and hop at the same time). I shall go and bathe it and anoint it in a minute.<\/p>\n

I have been managing to do a spot of knitting in between all the spinning. I have finally finished my latest test sample for my current City and Guilds project. I was test driving how the colours work, and also testing 6 possible patterns, of which I will probably use 3. This is the project I have been dyeing all the colours for.<\/p>\n

This is it in its unblocked, straight off the needles state.<\/p>\n

These are the most likely 3 patterns.<\/p>\n

\"AAPatternTest1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And these are the three probably rejects.<\/p>\n

\"AAPatternTest2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see the edging at the bottom edge is too loose. I think the top edge is better but now probably a bit tight. I am reserving final judgement until after it has been washed. The top edging is worked on smaller needles, which I think works well, but I think I decreased too many stitches.<\/p>\n

I also think I need to introduce another couple of intermediate colours. Another medium orange about half way up to ease the transition from red to orange, and a very pale orange just before the yellow. It is coming along though, and I am looking forward to being able to measure the tension after it has been washed and start plotting out the final design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cyclists did their biggest climb so far this tour, into Andorra, and I have crested my own little summit with my spinning. I have finished my first full\u00a0 bobbin of the tour. Yes, the grey Dorset is finally finished! Only two bobbins of the white to go and then I can ply it and […]<\/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":[36,27,29,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-in-anatolia","category-city-guilds","category-dyeing","category-stranded-knitting","category-tourdefleece2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-bv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}