{"id":18491,"date":"2024-02-06T21:58:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18491"},"modified":"2024-02-15T22:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:12:26","slug":"daily_3276_-_stinky_yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/02\/06\/daily_3276_-_stinky_yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3276 &#8211; stinky yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3276_stinky_yarn.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI bought more yarn on the internet. I was going to hold out until I can go to the crafts fair and can touch and look at what I&#8217;m buying, but this was just there and looked good, so I thought &#8211; why not?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that you need even more than looking and touching to check what you&#8217;re buying. This yarn turned out to smell, with a sharp, chemical odour. I asked the seller about it, and they said that the yarn had been musty after a a long while in storage, so they&#8217;d put it next to a toilet freshener block for a few days. Well, it definitely doesn&#8217;t smell musty any more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve squeezed in a lavender pouch between the yarn balls, and that plus just general airing might get the odour out, but I suspect I&#8217;ll end up having to return it. Who the hell would want their knitwear to smell like toilet cleaner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought more yarn on the internet. I was going to hold out until I can go to the crafts fair and can touch and look at what I&#8217;m buying, but this was just there and looked good, so I thought &#8211; why not? Turns out that you need even more than looking and touching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491","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=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18493,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions\/18493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}