{"id":713,"date":"2016-09-26T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=713"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:12:14","slug":"clearing-bobbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Clearing bobbins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a new design at the moment, so I don’t have a lot of knitting to share. \"\"<\/a> So that’s a little tease and here are some finished yarns from clearing off my bobbins ready for Spinzilla.<\/p>\n

1177m of 2plied super fine Shetland. I haven’t washed it yet but I expect it to be heavy lace weight\/light fingering weight. Love the colour of this.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

200g of Merino \/ Silk blend top became 800m of fingering weight yarn. I love 3plied yarn, so I spun roughly 66g onto each of 3bobbins and made this great 3ply. I N-plied the remnants.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had some tiny sample bits on a few bobbins so I plied those off to go in my box of oddments. All N-plied, some dyed mulberry silk, undyed mulberry silk and cotton.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The result… \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… a big pile of bobbins! I have some many Schacht bobbins as each wheel comes with 3 or 4 bobbins and I have 3 Schacht wheels that take these bobbins. The huge bobbins are the Hansen Woolee Winder bobbins. My Schacht-Reeves bobbins were already clear and aren’t in the photo. I managed to clear all the bobbins on Friday thinking it was the end of October and Spinzilla started today! I have no idea where that week went in my brain, but I’m glad to have that week back! Spinzilla starts a week today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m working on a new design at the moment, so I don’t have a lot of knitting to share.  So that’s a little tease and here are some finished yarns from clearing off my bobbins ready for Spinzilla. 1177m of 2plied super fine Shetland. I haven’t washed it yet but I expect it to be heavy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[155,146,46,50,144,15,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}