{"id":325,"date":"2014-08-30T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=325"},"modified":"2015-08-09T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T17:54:15","slug":"first-spinning-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2014\/08\/30\/first-spinning-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Spinning (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"2-<\/a><\/td>\nFibre:<\/span>\u00a0 Blue faced Leicester (BFL)
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Drop spindle
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 August 30, 2014.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I posted a blog post<\/a> with my first efforts at spinning with the drop spindle and then plying.\u00a0 This was the first effort in creating yarn I might actually use.\u00a0 I was aiming for a sock weight result, and missed it pretty completely.\u00a0 I can’t spin singles that are fine enough (yet).\u00a0 But, it was fun!\u00a0 And, I wound up with about 3.3oz of yarn — most of it 3-ply, some of it 2-ply.\u00a0 Not sure what I’ll do with it, but I have to say:\u00a0 even though the yarn itself has a fairly rugged<\/em>, I have to keep petting it and squooshing it… it’s my<\/em> yarn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 \"2-ply<\/a><\/td>\n2-ply knit up at 7st, 9rows to an inch on 2.25mm needles.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"3-ply<\/a><\/td>\n3-ply knit up at 5st, 8rows to an inch on 3.25mm needles.\u00a0 (That’s the top part of the swatch.\u00a0 I have lost track of what I knit the lower part on).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"weighing<\/a><\/td>\nWeighing in…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"spindle<\/span><\/a> \"repurposed!\"<\/a><\/td>\nRe-purposed tools!\u00a0 I put the spindle in a wide shoebox (with holes cut into it) to hold it while I wound the yarn off into a skein.\u00a0\u00a0 And, while plying, I used my knitting machine’s quadruple yarn holder with tensioned guides to hold the 3 plies!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Fibre:\u00a0 Blue faced Leicester (BFL) Method:\u00a0 Drop spindle Completed:\u00a0 August 30, 2014. I posted a blog post with my first efforts at spinning with the drop spindle and then plying.\u00a0 This was the first effort in creating yarn I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","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\/2015\/08\/IMG_4619-thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-5f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}