{"id":67,"date":"2007-09-03T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:57:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T01:57:50","slug":"weekend-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Weekend of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my weekend in the dye studio doing sock yarn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye1-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of sock yarn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye2-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mostly variegated, but also one batch of self-striping.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye4-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a three-day weekend here (there should be more three-day weekends in my life) so I had some extra time to play with string. I got eight skeins of yarn dyed (or nearly done), a few ounces of roving, and a couple of small sample bits. I had a request for a tiny skein of Penn State yarn, which went into the solar yarn cooker standing nearly on end so one end remained white.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye5-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was well-supervised in my efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/dye3-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The critters are shut out of the courtyard when I&#8217;m measuring dyes or there are things they could get into, but while I&#8217;m out there and there&#8217;s nothing more problematic than drying skeins, Morgan and Grendel love to keep an eye on things. Usually it&#8217;s Morgan, but he was sleeping indoors. The dog had to reveal his essential cat nature and sleep in the sun all afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I started a pair of socks from one of my first skeins of hand-painted. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sock1-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyed sock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I like the pattern, but the sock might be too big. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sock2-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Dyeing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m treating the top of the leg as the swatch, which may or may not save time. I also worked on the silk-camel-merino, and blended about a quarter of it. Someone else was using my wheel, though, so I didn&#8217;t spin any of it. No pics of the fiber &#8211; it looks like a blue blob, and you&#8217;ve already seen that.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think I should have staked the tomatoes?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/tomato-20070902.jpg\" alt=\"Tomato\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my weekend in the dye studio doing sock yarn. Lots of sock yarn. Mostly variegated, but also one batch of self-striping. It was a three-day weekend here (there should be more three-day weekends in my life) so I had some extra time to play with string. I got eight skeins of yarn dyed [&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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}