{"id":856,"date":"2012-06-30T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T01:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=856"},"modified":"2012-06-30T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T01:37:26","slug":"tour-de-fleece-2012-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Fleece 2012 &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/7475658422\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club - Dec 2010 - David's Gift - SW Corriedale\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8166\/7475658422_e307c44273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>Today was the beginning of\u00a0Tour de Fleece 2012. This year I&#8217;m going the Masochistic Tango version where I spin during Tour de Fleece, then knit using that yarn during the <del>Ravelympics<\/del> Ravellenic Games. I have two main projects planned: 1) laceweight singles spun from Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club &#8211; Dec 2010 &#8211; David&#8217;s Gift &#8211; SW Corriedale (pictured left) to knit a <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter09\/PATTcitron.php\">Citron Shawl<\/a>, 2) 3-ply sport weight spun from Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club &#8211; Aug 2011 &#8211; Change &#8211; Falkland to knit a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/autumn-vines-beret\">Autumn Vines Beret<\/a>\u00a0(Rav link).<\/p>\n<p>Today, so far, there has not been any knitting. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been working on prepping the fiber. \u00a0The David&#8217;s Gift is a progression dyed fiber, and I want to maintain the color order. \u00a0I opened up the fiber and did a little pre-drafting without splitting the fiber at all. \u00a0I really only did the pre-drafting because the SW Corriedale can be a little sticky, and I want to concentrate on spinning it not on fighting it. \u00a0For the Change fiber I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to spilt it 3 ways lengthwise or divide it into 3 pieces horizontally. \u00a0I want this one to have the colors mixed up so they don&#8217;t argue with the pattern of the beret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the beginning of\u00a0Tour de Fleece 2012. This year I&#8217;m going the Masochistic Tango version where I spin during Tour de Fleece, then knit using that yarn during the Ravelympics Ravellenic Games. I have two main projects planned: 1) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=856\">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":[58,385,368,369,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}