{"id":740,"date":"2009-07-24T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-07-24T22:28:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:28:18","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece: Day Twenty-One"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started my plying today. So far 278 metres done. I haven’t measured the thickness yet, but it looks to be about a 4ply weight at a rough guess. Here it is on the bobbin:<\/p>\n

\"DorsetSock1Day21\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here on the skeiner:<\/p>\n

\"DorsetSock2Day21\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am plying together one strand of grey Dorset, one of white Dorset, and one of superwash bluefaced leicester. I have now run out of the white Dorset, but there is still quite a lot of the grey Dorset and the bfl, so I think I shall spin up the rest of the bfl fibre I have (there was about 18g that I couldn’t fit on the bobbin yesterday), and ply that together with the leftovers.\u00a0 I am really interested to see what this will be like when knitted up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started my plying today. So far 278 metres done. I haven’t measured the thickness yet, but it looks to be about a 4ply weight at a rough guess. Here it is on the bobbin: And here on the skeiner: I am plying together one strand of grey Dorset, one of white Dorset, and one […]<\/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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-bW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}