{"id":104,"date":"2009-04-06T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-04-06T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:20:00","slug":"april-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":">April Showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<p>We are having more than showers today, and it seemed a good day to stay in, do some baking for the upcoming holiday weekend, and spin during the waiting times of rising and baking.<\/p>\n<p>A good friend of mine gave me this wonderful roving over the weekend.  I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m getting such lovely surprise presents this spring, but I\u2019m enjoying all of them.<\/p>\n<p>This roving is from Linda Lee, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.exclusivelylindalee.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">exclusivelylindalee<\/a> on etsy.  It\u2019s cotton, and I have not spun cotton since a very futile attempt once as a new spinner!  Since I could only spin worsted back in those early days I could not spin the cotton I\u2019d bought. I think I got rid of it in a guild raffle. Fast forward about a decade, and I am having a wonderful time with this beautifully painted roving, which is called \u201cPhoenix Garden\u201d colorway. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SdtkTGbX8JI\/AAAAAAAAA04\/CaTzJU5I6UA\/s1600-h\/Cotton%20spinning%20%281%29%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cotton spinning (1)\" style=\"border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Cotton spinning (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SdtkT72PJpI\/AAAAAAAAA08\/mJdnVTb6nBk\/Cotton%20spinning%20%281%29_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>My, that decade sure flew by quickly!  I have visions of a woven project with this yarn\u2026.just have to find appropriate warp, as I\u2019d like to leave this yarn a singles so I don\u2019t have to plan the color sequence in plying.<a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SdtkUagKA1I\/AAAAAAAAA1A\/QiypQEnK7Mw\/s1600-h\/cotton%20spinning%20002%5B5%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cotton spinning 002\" style=\"border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"cotton spinning 002\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SdtkVXGKa_I\/AAAAAAAAA1E\/iY_8xXA9cVo\/cotton%20spinning%20002_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"146\" border=\"0\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> We are having more than showers today, and it seemed a good day to stay in, do some baking for the upcoming holiday weekend, and spin during the waiting times of rising and baking. A good friend of mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinning","category-weaving","category-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}