{"id":67,"date":"2024-04-28T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:05:16","slug":"another-mixed-bag-of-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/another-mixed-bag-of-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Mixed Bag of Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>I hope your Sunday is going well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been up since before 3:00 thanks to poor sleeps and some (hopefully) minor health issues.\u00a0 Thankfully, I have several visits with labs, doctors, and scans coming in the next few weeks, and things should be explained and dealt with soon enough.\u00a0 The first half of May will be &#8230;. ummm&#8230;. &#8220;interesting&#8221; and should be informative.\u00a0 Unfortunately, dealing with health issues may mean some weird scheduling for dyeing and showing yarns, but I&#8217;ll do my best to stick to a semi-regular schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how to use the new WordPress templates to make the Web site look better.\u00a0 That&#8217;s at the top of my agenda for the coming week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be uploading all the non-Phydlbitz Sock BRS yarns first<\/p>\n<p>This week I set out to (finally!) do some more of the <strong>Shropshire<\/strong> yarns like a shared a few weeks ago.\u00a0 There are a dozen or more cones in the box labeled as <strong>Shropshire<\/strong>, but as I was pulling hanks it was evident that some were the chunky\/bulky yarns like before, some were spun quite small, almost like fingering.\u00a0 \u00a0I finally quit trying to figure it out, and supplemented this week&#8217;s Blog Reader Specials collection with some <strong>Phydlbitz Sock<\/strong>.\u00a0 At least I know how Phydlbitz behaves.\u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Phydlbitz Sock<\/strong> yarns were dyed as Twinsets using a dry-on-wet technique (dry dye powder on acid-wet yarns), which I&#8217;ve not done in a while.\u00a0 Twinset #353-354 was actually dip-dyed in a pale gray-pink, and then overdyed with a mix of teal and yellow; you can&#8217;t really see the undercoat.\u00a0 \u00a0Twinset #349-350 is a turquoise fade with navy tip.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Shropshire 160<\/strong> yarns were all dyed as single skeins, and were mostly dip-dyed as solids.\u00a0 I tried leaving them dipped longer to see if I could get better saturation than last time; in some cases it worked, but in other cases they came up with variations, almost like kettle-dyed.\u00a0 They are still rich and fabulous colors, of course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phydlbitz Sock<\/strong> is normally $27.50 each.\u00a0 The <strong>Shropshire 160<\/strong> is $24.00.<\/p>\n<p>To claim the ones you want, just <a href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\"><strong>send me an email<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below, and send you a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 On payment, I&#8217;ll print your shipping label so your package is ready to ship when the yarns are all dried.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have this week&#8217;s collection ready to ship on Thursday or Saturday (I&#8217;m at clinic this Friday).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Available Yarns<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack1 &#8211; 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">355, 356<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">357<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">358<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">359<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">360<\/span><\/del><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rack 2 &#8211; 361, 362, 363, 364, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">365<\/span><\/del><strong>, 366, 367, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">368<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">369<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">370<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">371<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">372<\/span><\/del><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack1-768x742.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack2-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BRS24-27Apr-Rack2-768x652.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Sunday! I hope your Sunday is going well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been up since before 3:00 thanks to poor sleeps and some (hopefully) minor health issues.\u00a0 Thankfully, I have several visits with labs, doctors, and scans coming in the next few weeks, and things should be explained and dealt with soon enough.\u00a0 The first half of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/another-mixed-bag-of-goodies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Mixed Bag of Goodies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-reader-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}