{"id":276,"date":"2003-10-20T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/fiber-acquisition-alert\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T12:45:18","slug":"fiber-acquisition-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/fiber-acquisition-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Acquisition Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following items were actually from my wish list: a nostepinne (a swedish ball-winder that makes center-pull balls of yarn), a yarn swift (at a <i>fantastic<\/i> price!) and two (yes, two) drop spindles &#8211; a beginners&#8217; spindle (with sheep faces drawn on it) and a lovely green swan spindle.  (OK, I confess, I really only had one spindle on my wish list &#8211; the other one just had to come home with me too.)<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/rhinebeck\/tools_of_the_trade.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I also bought some roving (well, I need something to use with my drop spindles!)  The heathery-purple roving is the softest merino (which I will need to wait to spin until I get a little better at it), and the blue, blue\/green and white balls of roving came with my beginners&#8217; spindle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/rhinebeck\/blues_and_purples.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I also bought a few orange things (well, what did you expect, with all the tempting fall colors scattered around the place?)  The orange\/yellow\/red roving is blue faced leicester wool, which is most likely destined to become a felted hat or something; the variegated lace-weight yarn is project-less for the moment.  Also, some other little goodies: a sheep mug and a beaded row counter.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/rhinebeck\/orange_fibers.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/rhinebeck\/mug_and_row_counter.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m pretty happy with my new stash!  I&#8217;d better start saving my pennies now for next year, especially since I now know what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and does anyone know exactly how Sleeping Beauty was supposed to have pricked her finger on a spinning wheel?  I saw many, many spinning wheels, and none of them seemed to have any sharp things on them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following items were actually from my wish list: a nostepinne (a swedish ball-winder that makes center-pull balls of yarn), a yarn swift (at a fantastic price!) and two (yes, two) drop spindles &#8211; a beginners&#8217; spindle (with sheep faces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}