{"id":14,"date":"2008-06-16T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T20:12:31","slug":"jacob-fleece-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Fleece Washing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0001.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0001-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jacob Fleece Washed 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"centered size-medium wp-image-15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0001-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0001.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI washed some of the fleece today, as my new hand carders and spindle arrived in the post. It hasn&#8217;t come very clean, so I might try teasing the fibres more first, and maybe different detergent, as this had 3 washes and rinses in very hot water.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0002-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jacob Fleece Washed 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0002-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0002.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0005.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0005-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hand Spun Corriedale Silver in dark purple\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0005-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0005.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI also thought I&#8217;d try some spinning, which is going surprisingly well I think. The first batch is Corriedale Silver in Dark Purple.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0004.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0004-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spindle\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0004-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dscf0004.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the second batch in White, work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>I will have to try and card some of the Jacob, then I can try and spin it&#8230; :-s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I washed some of the fleece today, as my new hand carders and spindle arrived in the post. It hasn&#8217;t come very clean, so I might try teasing the fibres more first, and maybe different detergent, as this had 3 washes and rinses in very hot water. I also thought I&#8217;d try some spinning, which &#8230; <a title=\"Jacob Fleece Washing&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=14\" aria-label=\"More on Jacob Fleece Washing&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[26,17,16,143,144,24,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}