{"id":159,"date":"2008-05-06T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:04:31","slug":"further-adventures-in-the-dye-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Further adventures in the dye studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember last summer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=41\">evil gypsy moths<\/a>? They hatched last week, and I was bombarded with (non-wool-eating but nonetheless horrible) baby caterpillars while I was working in the dye studio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/gypsy1-20080505.jpg\" alt=\"gypsy moth caterpillar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tiny, but voracious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/gypsy2-20080505.jpg\" alt=\"gypsy moth caterpillar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They will be growing rapidly, and eating everything they can get their little mandibles on, most especially oak trees. They aren&#8217;t as fond of maples, fortunately, since my street trees are all red maples. The town has already put up pyrethrin-soaked burlap bands, and is planning to spray, or the oaks would be in serious trouble.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all fun and sock yarn this weekend &#8211; there was also fun and wool. I&#8217;m continuing to search for the perfect tiny tablet-weaving wool, and I may have finally found it. I haven&#8217;t woven any yet, but in the skein it has all the right characteristics, and it&#8217;s much smaller than the other good weaving wool I&#8217;ve come up with.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/wool-20080505.jpg\" alt=\"gypsy moth caterpillar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And it takes dye beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Yes, I&#8217;m in Maryland, and have been since Sunday afternoon. I waved at MD Sheep and Wool as we drove by on the interstate, but didn&#8217;t get to stop!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember last summer&#8217;s evil gypsy moths? They hatched last week, and I was bombarded with (non-wool-eating but nonetheless horrible) baby caterpillars while I was working in the dye studio. Tiny, but voracious. They will be growing rapidly, and eating everything they can get their little mandibles on, most especially oak trees. They aren&#8217;t as fond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}