{"id":710,"date":"2010-04-22T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-04-21T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:48:27","slug":"spinning-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Never-ending spinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a few threads on Ravelry aimed at either spinning down stash or spinning for a lace project, I&#8217;ve been motivated to pull my poor neglected wheel out of my fiber room and do some spinning.  I&#8217;ve even managed to finish(-ish) a couple of projects that have been languishing.  On Monday night, I finally finished spinning the singles from those <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=699\">green merino\/silk batts<\/a> that were my first drum carding experiment.\u00a0 They went sadly unfinished during the Ravelympics, but there is an end in sight now.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s proof:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/4540800659\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Green singles\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2748\/4540800659_900cf31443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All that&#8217;s left is to ply it.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m going to try making a plying ball to see if that works better than plying from a center-pull ball.\u00a0 The only thing I&#8217;m slightly worried about is that I know there are some spots where the singles are more than a bit thin.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already anticipating them breaking as I try to create a plying ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a few threads on Ravelry aimed at either spinning down stash or spinning for a lace project, I&#8217;ve been motivated to pull my poor neglected wheel out of my fiber room and do some spinning. I&#8217;ve even managed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=710\">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":[5],"tags":[283,265,15,385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}