{"id":36,"date":"2007-07-09T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-07-10T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T11:41:08","slug":"spin-span-spun-and-dyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Spin, span, spun. And dyed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gotland is all spun! There&#8217;s two skeins of S-spun\/Z-plied and two skeins of Z-spun\/S-plied. Why, you might ask? For fun with weaving! More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/gotland20070709.jpg\" alt=\"Spun Gotland\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I realized as I was taking the picture that I skeined them all in the same direction regardless of yarn twist. It probably doesn&#8217;t make much difference because the skeins are so loosely twisted, but it still seems like I should do it in the correct direction. Not enough to actually <em>do<\/em> anything about it, though. The one in front hasn&#8217;t been finished yet &#8211; see<br \/>\nthe difference? These are for weaving, so I&#8217;ve been soaking them in very hot water, whacking them around a bit, then letting them dry under tension.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I ever posted a pic of the cherry bomb roving in its final state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/cherrybomb20070709.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry bomb roving\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has now achieved its <em>final<\/em> final state. Well, penultimate final (?) since I do plan to  make something from it if it is ever cool enough to touch wool again. The colors are better in the photo of the roving. I took the picture of the yarn this morning, and it wasn&#8217;t actually sunny yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/cherryspun20070709.jpg\" alt=\"Spun cherry bomb\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But being so hot, it was a lovely weekend for solar dyeing. I didn&#8217;t get around to my solar yarn cooker improvements, but I did do two batches of roving and a silk cap that I&#8217;ve had for umpteen years. [Note to self: work with silk <em>before<\/em> doing yard work. Scraped up hands are <em>so<\/em> not compatible with fine silk.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye120070709.jpg\" alt=\"Dyebath 1\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye220070709.jpg\" alt=\"Dyebath 2\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye320070709.jpg\" alt=\"Dyebath 3\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye420070709.jpg\" alt=\"All dyed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The silk is dyed with the leftover dark red that I was scared to use because it looked so disgusting when wet. Know what? It&#8217;s just lovely on the silk. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>In the garden, a few new things are starting. I missed one solitary white flower that I would have loved a photo of (never seen anything quite like it). Too slow, though. The clematis is the only thing in full bloom right now. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/clematis20070709.jpg\" alt=\"Clematis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I need a taller trellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gotland is all spun! There&#8217;s two skeins of S-spun\/Z-plied and two skeins of Z-spun\/S-plied. Why, you might ask? For fun with weaving! More to come&#8230; I realized as I was taking the picture that I skeined them all in the same direction regardless of yarn twist. It probably doesn&#8217;t make much difference because the [&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":[7,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-garden","category-spinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}