{"id":558,"date":"2010-09-04T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-09-04T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T05:31:19","slug":"success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So among the things I have been working on this summer is my spinning.  I have a really adorable little Golding spindle that I picked up two Marylands ago that I have been getting more and more comfortable with, and ages and ages ago I started spinning up this bagful of fiber I got from a kind fellow Raveler who RAK&#8217;d it to me so I could have something to practice with.<\/p>\n<p>This is what it looked like when I started:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/4258060160\/\" title=\"Handspun by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2686\/4258060160_5cf76f37aa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Handspun\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve been messing around with my spindles for a while &#8212; I have this big generic one that I got cheap at Rhinebeck years ago, and it was just too heavy for me to spin comfortably with.  It wasn&#8217;t until I picked up my Golding that things finally started falling into place.<\/p>\n<p>And how.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/4955686863\/\" title=\"Honest to goodness HANDSPUN by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/4955686863_9fc2339643.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Honest to goodness HANDSPUN\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say hello to 91 yards of roughly sport-weight, chain-plied YARN.  Yarn that I spun, all by myself.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/4956278512\/\" title=\"Honest to goodness HANDSPUN by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4125\/4956278512_388ea70a40.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Honest to goodness HANDSPUN\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The skein is sitting next to me right now, because I can&#8217;t stop patting it and touching it.  Guys, I can make yarn!  This changes everything!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;ve already started spinning more.  As the internet would put it, MUST SPIN ALL THE FIBER.  If you&#8217;ll excuse me, my spindle awaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So among the things I have been working on this summer is my spinning. I have a really adorable little Golding spindle that I picked up two Marylands ago that I have been getting more and more comfortable with, and ages and ages ago I started spinning up this bagful of fiber I got from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Success!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}