{"id":1261,"date":"2017-02-20T22:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2018-04-22T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:22:57","slug":"splishsplash-spun-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2017\/02\/20\/splishsplash-spun-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SplishSplash Spun! (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"SplishSplash wheelspun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/IMG_0275-small.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"354\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/IMG_0275-small.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_0275-small.jpg\" data-title=\"IMG_0275-small\" data-description=\"SplishSplash wheelspun\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_0275-small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0275-small\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fibre:<\/strong> Loop &#8220;Splish Splash&#8221; colourway on Merino, Bamboo, Tussah Silk fibre (packaged as 4.7oz).<br \/>\n<strong>Yarn<\/strong>: ~140yds sock weight (1.9oz); ~139yds DK weight (2.4oz); both were chain-plied<br \/>\n<strong>Method<\/strong>: Wheel spun with long draw<br \/>\n<strong>Completed<\/strong>: February 20, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Chain-plying was the obvious tactic given that the bump was &#8220;pull from the centre&#8221; and the colour layers made long transitions.&nbsp; The fibre itself was a narrower strip than I&#8217;m used to, so I used a larger whorl (less twist, more tug).&nbsp; Once I got used to that, it worked very nicely in long draw.<\/p>\n<p>I did not intentionally make 2 different thicknesses &#8212; I just got more refined with my drafting as I went along, and the second bobbin was finer.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibre: Loop &#8220;Splish Splash&#8221; colourway on Merino, Bamboo, Tussah Silk fibre (packaged as 4.7oz). Yarn: ~140yds sock weight (1.9oz); ~139yds DK weight (2.4oz); both were chain-plied Method: Wheel spun with long draw Completed: February 20, 2017. Chain-plying was the obvious<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spinning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/ngg_featured\/IMG_0275-small.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-kl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}