{"id":40,"date":"2006-02-01T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2006\/02\/01\/silk-hankies-and-their-like\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:38:00","slug":"silk-hankies-and-their-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/silk-hankies-and-their-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk Hankies and their Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well this was a first. I raised silk worms like every kindergartener in So Cal (land of Mulberry trees) but I’d never really held SILK. The silk hankies featured here Knittyspin: Knittyspin win 05 – silk hankies<\/a> from Chasing Rainbows (a deal at $14) are extraordinary. I bought mine in “Heather”…for obvious reasons.
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Let me fill you in on what the Knitty article doesn’t<\/span> say: JeeHOSefat! That stuff’s STRONG!.
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Seriously. The “tugging it into roving” thing.
HA!<\/p>\n

Tug is WAY WAY too polite. I struggled. I strained. The tensile strength of silk is well-known, sure. But there’s a difference between “knowing” and “oh-my-God-this-can’t-be-right-I’m-gonna-freakin’-break-it!”<\/p>\n

However. I did manage to make a roving. And here’s a cool thing–you get it to the roving state and suddenly and all at once, you let go and it’s light as a feather. Fluffy, soft–still mad strong, yo. But gorgeous.<\/p>\n

And now I have a reason for my new (my FIRST!) Bosie. I just got a Featherweight in Purpleheart.
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I think I love it. Not as much as my husband. Not as much as Will Smith (DH knows…). But I do love it. Spins lovely. Sheila tested it for me and included some lovely roving which (amazing) matches the Heather Silk!<\/p>\n

coincidence?<\/p>\n

I think not.<\/p>\n

So here I go to my local Stitch-n-Bitch tonight. Tra la la. Gotta show someone who might care.<\/p>\n

DH’s response to all things yarn?
Yawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well this was a first. I raised silk worms like every kindergartener in So Cal (land of Mulberry trees) but I’d never really held SILK. The silk hankies featured here Knittyspin: Knittyspin win 05 – silk hankies from Chasing Rainbows (a deal at $14) are extraordinary. I bought mine in “Heather”…for obvious reasons.Let me fill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}