{"id":466,"date":"2010-01-26T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-01-26T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:24:57","slug":"its-baaaack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s baaaack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I left for work it was 25F colder than yesterday morning, and instead of torrential downpours it looked like this. (The title of this post should be said in horror-movie tones, not rock-star tones, if you were wondering.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/snow20100126.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy yard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>January has returned, and <i>just<\/i> in time for February.<\/p>\n<p>This time of year always makes me hungry for color (and don&#8217;t the seed catalog companies know it!), so I&#8217;ll share with you some new photos. I did wool samples with the Lanaset dyes, and they came out very nicely. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/wool-rainbow.jpg\" alt=\"Dyed wool\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/wool-rainbow2.jpg\" alt=\"Dyed wool\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wool might even be more vivid than the silk, though not as lustrous (same percentage of dye by weight for each).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/silk-rainbow.jpg\" alt=\"Dyed silk\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/silk-rainbow2.jpg\" alt=\"Dyed silk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I feel better just looking at them, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>The wool is a thin worsted (20\/2), and tablet-weaves very nicely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/tw.jpg\" alt=\"Tablet-woven wool\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just need to decide what pattern I want to weave: I keep changing my mind. I wanted to experiment with space-dyed warps, so the black is solid and the green is variegated. I originally had something with trees in 3\/1 twill in mind, and will probably eventually go back to that plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I left for work it was 25F colder than yesterday morning, and instead of torrential downpours it looked like this. (The title of this post should be said in horror-movie tones, not rock-star tones, if you were wondering.) January has returned, and just in time for February. This time of year always [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}