{"id":742,"date":"2009-07-25T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2009-07-25T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T20:48:52","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece: Day Twenty-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting finish on the top of Mont Ventoux today! I have actually achieved quite a lot in my spinning too.<\/p>\n<p>First here is the finished skein from yesterday. This is one strand of white Dorset, one of grey Dorset cross and one of superwash Bluefaced Leicester. I have 93g and 278m. I still haven&#8217;t managed to measure the thickness but am guessing around 4ply \/ fingering weight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two\/dorsetsockskeinday22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1248563880&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DorsetSockSkeinDay22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-863 aligncenter\" title=\"DorsetSockSkeinDay22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DorsetSockSkeinDay22\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetSockSkeinDay22.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I spun up my remaining 18g of superwash BFL:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two\/bflday22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1248554678&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BFLDay22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-864 aligncenter\" title=\"BFLDay22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"BFLDay22\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BFLDay22.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and plied it with the remains of the grey Dorset and BFL. Here is the plied yarn on the bobbin:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"865\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two\/dorsetbflsockbobbinday22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1248563300&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-865 aligncenter\" title=\"DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockBobbinDay22.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and on the skeiner:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/le-tour-de-fleece-day-twenty-two\/dorsetbflsockskeinerday22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1248564005&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-866 aligncenter\" title=\"DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DorsetBFLSockSkeinerDay22.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weighs 43g and measures 124.5m, a similar thickness to the previous skein.<\/p>\n<p>I still have loads of grey Dorset and the first bobbin of BFL left so I went for a dig upstairs and found another 50g of BFL, and I will spin that tomorrow to ply with the remnants.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the newly fixed washing machine I have washed the sheets today, so I had better go and put them back on the bed so I can get a reasonably early night. Finish of the tour tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting finish on the top of Mont Ventoux today! I have actually achieved quite a lot in my spinning too. First here is the finished skein from yesterday. This is one strand of white Dorset, one of grey Dorset cross and one of superwash Bluefaced Leicester. I have 93g and 278m. I still haven&#8217;t managed [&hellip;]<\/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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourdefleece2009"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-bY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}