{"id":22,"date":"2004-10-28T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2004\/10\/28\/an-experiment-with-food-coloring\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T19:05:59","slug":"an-experiment-with-food-coloring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"An experiment with food coloring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a skein of NZ Romney that I had spun up when I first got my wheel several months ago.  Since it was the test skein for my wheel, I decided it should continue to meet its fate as a guinea pig.  Thus, it was chosen as the test skein for dyeing with food coloring in my microwave.<\/p>\n<p>The Results:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/2863775753\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3216\/2863775753_a9493d66de_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I left it in twisted skein form and half-submerged it in &#8220;dusty pink&#8221;&#8230; at least that&#8217;s the color the box of neon food coloring said I should get with the ratio of drops I used.  When I was done with the one side, the skein was flipped and half submerged in &#8220;sky blue&#8221;&#8230; again the color according to the box.  The purple, of course, came from the mixing of the two colors.  Here and there, you can still see a little of the light grey the skein started out as. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a skein of NZ Romney that I had spun up when I first got my wheel several months ago. Since it was the test skein for my wheel, I decided it should continue to meet its fate as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,5],"tags":[35,32,33,34,36,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}