{"id":107,"date":"2009-04-16T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2009-04-16T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:09:00","slug":"bit-by-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":">Bit by Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \"April<\/a> \"April<\/a>\"April<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cochineal Dyeing\u2026 I think if you click on the first photo you can just barely see the color of the dye with the little bugs in the pan.  I used distilled water to simmer the bugs for releasing the dye, and according to Michelle Wipplinger\u2019s recipe (which I got through Deb Bramford), after extracting the dye with distilled water I could use tap\/well water for topping off the liquid.  This did not work for me as I believe my well water is the source of what turned my bright red dye into plum\/purple yarn.  It\u2019s a lovely color, but I wanted red!<\/p>\n

\"April<\/a> <\/p>\n

Three dyebaths\u2026not much change between #2 and #3.<\/p>\n

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\"Hudson<\/a> \"April<\/a> My progress on Hudson River from last week to this week.  I\u2019m done with the boat (yea!) and can now focus on the trees\/cliffs\/water\/sky.  The trees are a bit fiddly but once I work out a system I hope I will at least be able to make steady progress.  <\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m  finally going to take a photo of the \u2018Arwen Cardigan.\u2019  I don\u2019t know when I\u2019ll get to frogging and fixing.<\/p>\n

\"April<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Some big collar, right?  Anyway, the rest of the sweater fits well (better on me than my svelte dress form on which it hangs badly!), and I like the zipper!  Of course, I have to take out the zipper and completely frog the collar since it was knitted sideways onto the neck opening.  I picked up a stitch from the neck edge every other row, but when I re-do I will either:<\/p>\n

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A.  Pick up a stitch from the neck edge every 4th row<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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OR<\/p>\n

B.  Knit the collar separately to a length I like and sew it to the neck edge, easing it in to make it fit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m leaning toward \u201cB.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

>   Cochineal Dyeing\u2026 I think if you click on the first photo you can just barely see the color of the dye with the little bugs in the pan.  I used distilled water to simmer the bugs for releasing the dye, and according to Michelle Wipplinger\u2019s recipe (which I got through Deb Bramford), after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-knitting","category-tapestry","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}