{"id":96,"date":"2009-02-18T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-02-23T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T21:48:05","slug":"more-about-phat-fiber-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/more-about-phat-fiber-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Phat Fiber samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are lucky enough to purchase a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phatfiber.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phat Fiber<\/a> sample box for March, you will see my Shetland and BFL\/Lincoln mini-skeins (about 20 yards).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s information about the samples I&#8217;ll be including.<\/p>\n<p>All the roving for these samples was bought in person, from the people who raised the sheep, at either the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival or the Shepherd&#8217;s Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival in Minnesota.\u00a0 I know for sure that the Shetland samples are naturally colored fiber with no added dye.\u00a0 I believe that the BFL\/Lincoln is also naturally colored, but at the same time I know the \u201cideal\u201d breed specimens are white, not gray.\u00a0 So I\u2019m not positive!\u00a0 I am also unsure whether the BFL\/Lincoln is wool from a cross-breed or a blend of wools from both breeds.<\/p>\n<p>The packaging is representative of what you\u2019ll get from my shop \u2013 all yarns have been washed gently with Synthrapol, wrung and sent through the spin cycle, then air-dried.\u00a0 Next they are tagged with length, weight, and a space to write in stitches per inch.\u00a0 I include the sheep breed in the fiber content if it is known.<\/p>\n<p>These samples are characteristic of my spinning in that they are traditionally textured, two-ply and on the light side of worsted.\u00a0 I have a spinning wheel with a small orifice, and it seems to like this kind of yarn best!\u00a0 However, some yarns in my shop are Navajo-ply, funky spirals, or bulkier weight, and as it happens I\u2019m all out of Shetland for this year!\u00a0 I hope to get more in September at the WI fest.\u00a0 I also very much enjoy spinning dyed roving sourced from other small vendors (via Etsy, other online shops and the festivals) \u2013 although dyeing is fun, I like spinning better.<\/p>\n<p>Allergy notes: Yarn has been spun in a non-smoking household. I have a cat, but she isn\u2019t allowed around the yarn once it\u2019s been washed; it\u2019s stored in a large plastic bin with some anti-moth herbs and cedar chips.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check for the coupon code on the tag to get 15% off your order!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are lucky enough to purchase a Phat Fiber sample box for March, you will see my Shetland and BFL\/Lincoln mini-skeins (about 20 yards).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s information about the samples I&#8217;ll be including. All the roving for these samples was bought in person, from the people who raised the sheep,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-selling","category-spinning-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haleystudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}