{"id":801,"date":"2012-03-25T06:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/?p=801"},"modified":"2016-01-29T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T18:04:44","slug":"never-felt-this-way-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/never-felt-this-way-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Never felt this way before"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I left you wondering what had happened to the other 2 and a quarter pounds of my Finn fleece.\u00a0 Admit it, you’ve been worrying about it all week.\u00a0 So here is how it breaks down.\u00a0 12 ounces of the fleece, I didn’t even bother to wash.\u00a0 The fleece had not been well skirted and there was still a section of unmentionably dirty wool.\u00a0 If I run short on yarn for the project I am starting with it, I may get desperate enough to wash it, but I sure hope not.\u00a0 So with the 1.75lbs of yarn, that leaves only a half a pound.\u00a0 This was the fluff that was left behind when I carded the wool.\u00a0 The nice thing about the carding process is that it tends to separate different lengths of wool.\u00a0 Most of the longer fibers went into the splits that I have since spun into a nice three-ply sport weight yarn.\u00a0 (I’ll post pictures of that when I go to dye it.)\u00a0 The shorter fluffy fibers were left behind but could be run through the carder again to produce felting batts.\u00a0 But first… I dyed them.\u00a0 Spring is here in a big way in Virginia, so green was on my mind.\u00a0 I have lost my big dye pot… Don’t ask, so I had to work in small batches.\u00a0 I never realized how many pigments go into the color green.<\/p>\n

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Quite a mess of color.\u00a0 I decided to make a virtue of the problem by testing the blending ability of my carder.<\/p>\n

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The different colors create a heathered effect.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Not too bad.\u00a0 I can turn these layers into nice wool felt pretty easily.\u00a0 But since I’ve decided that I want to create a hat from them, I have to wait on getting a hat form.\u00a0 I have been inspired by the work of Jasmin Zorlou.\u00a0 Her video on You-tube<\/a> is awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I left you wondering what had happened to the other 2 and a quarter pounds of my Finn fleece.\u00a0 Admit it, you’ve been worrying about it all week.\u00a0 So here is how it breaks down.\u00a0 12 ounces of the fleece, I didn’t even bother to wash.\u00a0 The fleece had not been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/drum.jpg?fit=640%2C490&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/drum.jpg?fit=640%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-cV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":843,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/science-of-knitting\/","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":0},"title":"Science of Knitting","author":"admin","date":"April 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As those of you who know me, or who read me on any kind of regular basis know, my professional training is in science.\u00a0 So when faced with a problem, in this case, my less than enthusiastic feeling for my last knitting project, my immediate approach to figuring out what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fibers"","block_context":{"text":"Fibers","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/fibers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/swatches.jpg?fit=640%2C490&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/swatches.jpg?fit=640%2C490&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/swatches.jpg?fit=640%2C490&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/onions\/","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":1},"title":"Onions!","author":"admin","date":"September 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Several months ago I bought a sample card from Paradise Fibers with a whole bunch of different wool and silk fibers.\u00a0 I wondered, after Kaleeb's and my experiments with natural dyes (in which the commercial wool took up the dyes much more intensely than my hand-spun), whether the breed of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "dyeing"","block_context":{"text":"dyeing","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/fibers\/dyeing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":786,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/batting-a-thousand\/","url_meta":{"origin":801,"position":2},"title":"Batting a Thousand","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"My birthday was last month, and rather than sock the money I received away to justify all the little extra craft purchases I make, I decided to splurge on a somewhat larger toy. 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