{"id":1577,"date":"2007-11-06T05:55:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2007-11-06T05:55:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T10:55:47","slug":"pulling-the-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Pulling The Wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who&#8217;s been known to home-brew, I probably shouldn&#8217;t cock an eyebrow at people who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/389\/story\/1530387.html\">shear and spin their own wool<\/a> for knitting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hand-spinning is growing in popularity, especially among young people, said Natasha Thoreson of the Minnesota Weavers Guild (www.weaversguildmn. com) in Minneapolis. &#8220;We have quite a few members who start with the sheep,&#8221; she said, but most take advantage of the sheep farms that also sell cleaned wool, as well as a growing number of yarn shops that now sell roving &#8212; bundles of wool that&#8217;s been washed clean of lanolin and combed smooth, ready for spinning.<\/p>\n<p>Thoreson said the guild can&#8217;t offer enough spinning classes to meet the demand. In addition, two weaving groups meet monthly to spin together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For me, of course, the next obvious stop would be making my own gyros and souvlaki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who&#8217;s been known to home-brew, I probably shouldn&#8217;t cock an eyebrow at people who shear and spin their own wool for knitting: Hand-spinning is growing in popularity, especially among young people, said Natasha Thoreson of the Minnesota Weavers Guild (www.weaversguildmn. com) in Minneapolis. &#8220;We have quite a few members who start with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}