{"id":15876,"date":"2022-07-29T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15876"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:31:39","slug":"daily_2732_-_yarn_leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/07\/29\/daily_2732_-_yarn_leftovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2732 &#8211; yarn leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2732_yarn.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe cardigan colour fade saga continues.<\/p>\n<p>The first fade, from amber to orange, took me two attempts, but the second one was perfect in that it used up the entirety of the amber yarn, except for a small scrap.<\/p>\n<p>For the second fade, from orange to red, I calculated and measured and weighed and triangulated and still got it wrong. I ran out of the orange yarn before it was finished. I was missing only 20 metres or 5 grams of yarn. Not willing to frog the whole fade, I bought another whole hank, so the leftovers this time are 95% of a hank. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final fade, from red to a darker and more muted red, I finally got more or less right on the first try. About 20 grams left where I would have preferred 10, so I could have gotten another 5 rows of knitting out of it, but I&#8217;d rather err in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>And now there is no more of that! Just keep knitting with no more counting and weighing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cardigan colour fade saga continues. The first fade, from amber to orange, took me two attempts, but the second one was perfect in that it used up the entirety of the amber yarn, except for a small scrap. For the second fade, from orange to red, I calculated and measured and weighed and triangulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15881,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15876\/revisions\/15881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}