{"id":2221,"date":"2020-06-16T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2022-02-18T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:49:15","slug":"spring-has-sprung-sock-yarn-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2020\/06\/16\/spring-has-sprung-sock-yarn-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Has Sprung Sock Yarn (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fibre:<\/strong> Green Goat Ranch Blended Rolags  (Yellow &amp; Kiwi; 70% Merino, 30%)<br><strong>Yarn<\/strong>: 2-ply; 330yds sock yarn<br><strong>Method<\/strong>: Wheel spun with long draw<br><strong>Completed<\/strong>: June 16, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought these rolags as part of the Virtual Maryland Sheep &amp; Wool Festival in early May 2020.  They spun up like candy!  So fun, and you couldn&#8217;t stop at one :-&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spun half of my rolags from yellow to green ends, and the other half from green to yellow ends, before plying them as a 2-ply.  I guess I was reasonably consistent &#8212; 323yds on one bobbin, and 330yds on the other!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a very loose spin on the singles, and plied more heavily, aiming for a good tight yarn without making it &#8220;wiry&#8221;.    As this is destined for making socks, I didn&#8217;t want to leave the fibres too loose, but I also didn&#8217;t want &#8220;crunchy&#8221; stiff yarn.  Seemed to work out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibre: Green Goat Ranch Blended Rolags (Yellow &amp; Kiwi; 70% Merino, 30%)Yarn: 2-ply; 330yds sock yarnMethod: Wheel spun with long drawCompleted: June 16, 2020. I bought these rolags as part of the Virtual Maryland Sheep &amp; Wool Festival in early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2226,"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-2221","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\/2020\/06\/IMG_1144-sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-zP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}