{"id":132,"date":"2009-08-28T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-08-28T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:53:00","slug":"vacation-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":">Vacation Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All packed and nowhere to go!  It\u2019s raining buckets here, and we thought we\u2019d be ahead of it in Maine, but even so, arriving before the rain hits Maine doesn\u2019t really sound appealing when we are traveling with our dog.  When we are on Pandora<\/a><\/em> in rain we snuggle up down below and turn on the heat, bake some bread, or biscuits, or pie, and spend the day reading and knitting or spinning.  Having a wet dog down below, who needs to go ashore three times a day,  is much less appealing\u2026.<\/p>\n

So today I\u2019m using my newly found time to dye a second small skein (only 1 oz., 70 yds) in the Brazilwood pot. Yesterday\u2019s 2 oz. skein is a wonderful color that I cannot describe well.  It\u2019s a medium\/dark shade of something between rose and terracotta.  Yes, it\u2019s both a cool and warm shade of a complex reddish color! That\u2019s what I love about natural dyes!  The colors are so complex I can\u2019t find the words to properly describe them!  And monitors being what they are, I can\u2019t even show you an accurate photo! Today\u2019s skein will be lighter.  I could keep going with this dye bath, but I think I will discard it after this second batch. Pack rat that I am, I have saved the sawdust\u2026 <\/p>\n

\"Aug.<\/a>\"Aug.<\/a> <\/p>\n

I\u2019m scouring my two large hanks of grey corriedale which seem to have a lot of lanolin in them.  I washed that fleece before sending it off to be processed into bumps, but oh my!  There is a lot of lanolin still in it!  I may take a skein with me to Maine to sample some lace patterns\u2026. I\u2019m now imagining this yarn as a lace cardigan.\"Aug.<\/a> <\/p>\n

This little swatch of the corrie is 6 st\/in\u2026just what I wanted! (I love using my Signature<\/font><\/a> needles! I now have size 1 through 6!)<\/p>\n

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And since it\u2019s a dark, dreary day, I will take some time today to spin the Shetland which is now my first choice for the stranded, round yoke sweater I want to make with the handpainted yarn I spun earlier this summer (the Gale Evans \u201cgrapevine\u201d).<\/p>\n

Our ETD is now Sunday, very early.  That means I can go to the local farmers\u2019 market tomorrow morning.  And perhaps this evening we\u2019ll go to a movie\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> All packed and nowhere to go!  It\u2019s raining buckets here, and we thought we\u2019d be ahead of it in Maine, but even so, arriving before the rain hits Maine doesn\u2019t really sound appealing when we are traveling with our dog.  When we are on Pandora in rain we snuggle up down below and turn […]<\/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":[19,7,25,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-knitting","category-sailing","category-spinning","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}