{"id":1860,"date":"2019-01-28T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2019-02-07T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:58:02","slug":"tip-to-tail-unicorn-wheelspun-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2019\/01\/28\/tip-to-tail-unicorn-wheelspun-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip to Tail Unicorn Wheelspun (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fibre:<\/strong> Fiber Stash Dyeworks Polwarth Roving<br><strong>Yarn<\/strong>: 2-ply: ~216 yds;  DK weight<br><strong>Method<\/strong>: Wheel spun with long draw<br><strong>Completed<\/strong>: January 28, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spun the whole bump of roving into one single, and then plied it by matching the two ends (beginning &amp; end).  The result is a purple\/lilac strand that runs throughout the skein, with a gradient of turquoise to dark blue to lilac as the second strand.  Should be an interesting overall gradient effect when knit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s nice and squooshy! But, overall, considerably heavier weight yarn than I was aiming for, and still (again) pretty wild variations from thick to thin.  This was in spite of my effort to save and refer to a ply-back sample as I went.  I&#8217;m chalking it up to the fact that the project was on hold for a long while (a couple of months, as the holiday season got busy), and then I was in a rush to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and &#8220;tip-to-tail&#8221; because that&#8217;s how I plied the single.  &#8220;Unicorn&#8221; because somehow the colours seemed to evoke that kind of fantasy creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibre: Fiber Stash Dyeworks Polwarth RovingYarn: 2-ply: ~216 yds; DK weightMethod: Wheel spun with long drawCompleted: January 28, 2019. I spun the whole bump of roving into one single, and then plied it by matching the two ends (beginning &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1900,"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":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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","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\/2019\/02\/thumbs_IMG_6795-sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-u0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","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=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}