{"id":489,"date":"2010-06-21T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T22:16:13","slug":"goal-kinda-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/goal-kinda-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal (kinda) achieved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My (semi) private goal for the longest time has been to spin a 3 ply fingering weight yarn.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m competitive, but also because I tend to knit mostly with a fingering weight yarn.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I finally met my goal!\u00a0 I started with 4oz of Magic Stix yarn (no longer in business) in three shades of purple:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Purple Roving\" src=\"http:\/\/ny-image2.etsy.com\/il_430xN.38343534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spun each purple shade on it&#8217;s own bobbin, and although I had some inconsistencies, I did end up with a 3 ply fingering weight yarn!\u00a0 It&#8217;s 260 yards, which is less than I wanted but still pretty dang good for a first 3 ply out of 4 oz.\u00a0 Have a gander:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"yarn1\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4034\/4720336053_1af4a753fa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"yarn2\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1329\/4720986040_f3094c7332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty stoked and if it was enough yardage I would totally be winding it to knit <strong>right now<\/strong>!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My (semi) private goal for the longest time has been to spin a 3 ply fingering weight yarn.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m competitive, but also because I tend to knit mostly with a fingering weight yarn.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 This weekend, I finally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/goal-kinda-achieved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,3],"tags":[250,251,316,7],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-ramblings","category-general","tag-3plyfingering","tag-hellyeah","tag-knitting","tag-spinning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}