{"id":718,"date":"2009-06-29T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2009-06-29T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T00:50:24","slug":"mesmerized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Mesmerized"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, another two weeks and time for another update. Besides the club sock, I still have the heel experiment going on.<\/p>\n

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This time, rather than lining all of the increases up along the center, I am making the increases diverge from the center, forming a “V” at the bottom of the foot. I am getting near the heel turn, so I should find out soon enough whether this will work out any better than the first sock.<\/p>\n

And, I seem to be on a spinning roll (spin\/roll?) at the moment. This finished single is more merino\u00a0from Enchanted Knoll<\/a>, this time in the Mesmerized colorway.<\/p>\n

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It spun up as quickly as Silk Road, but was a little tougher to draft. Not sure why, but it just was not as smooth drafting. Nonetheless, it still only took about 35 to 45 minutes for me to spin up a half ounce.<\/p>\n

Next\u00a0up on the wheel is one of the alpaca\/merino\/tussah silk blends from Spirit Trail<\/a>. Here is some of it pre-drafted.<\/p>\n

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I seem to want to spin this as fine as I spun the corriedale from Grafton.<\/p>\n

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As a matter of comparison, it is taking me between 75 and 90 minutes to do a half ounce of this.<\/p>\n

And all of this spinning got me to get out fast flyer and extra bobbins that I have for my Lendrum Saxony and finally apply finish to them.<\/p>\n

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I used Tried and True Original Wood Finish that was a mix of linseed oil and beeswax. It worked great, only requiring one application to get the tone that matches the rest of my wheel, which I did with just boiled linseed oil (if I remember correctly) in three applications. Now I have eight bobbins total for my Lendrum. Woohoo!<\/p>\n

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Reference Well, another two weeks and time for another update. Besides the club sock, I still have the heel experiment going on. This time, rather than lining all of the increases up along the center, I am making the increases diverge from the center, forming a “V” at the bottom of the foot. I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before","category-clothing","category-knitting","category-spinning","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}