{"id":2546,"date":"2011-02-23T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2011-02-23T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:44:00","slug":"bad-dye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"Bad dye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/5472250375\/\" title=\"Araucania Bad Dye by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5217\/5472250375_aed0d5cde5.jpg\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Araucania Bad Dye\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I put this hank of Araucania Nature Cotton on the swift to wind it.  It was going to be earflaps for a customer&#8217;s cotton Jayne hat.  Looks like the folks at Araucania tied the hank a little too tightly and the dye didn&#8217;t take.  I can&#8217;t send out a hat with white spots in the earflaps.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, my friends, I am done with cotton Jayne hats.  They&#8217;re unpleasant to knit.  They&#8217;re not cost effective to sell.  The materials are inconsistent from batch to batch.  And the texture isn&#8217;t really suitable for hats.  So this is the last one.  From now on, clients who are allergic to wool can go with acrylic.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3156606382\/\" title=\"acrylic Jayne 1 by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3097\/3156606382_ed588f769d.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"acrylic Jayne 1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBonus:  it&#8217;s cheaper for the customer.  Jayne would get behind that.<\/center><br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put this hank of Araucania Nature Cotton on the swift to wind it. It was going to be earflaps for a customer&#8217;s cotton Jayne hat. Looks like the folks at Araucania tied the hank a little too tightly and the dye didn&#8217;t take. I can&#8217;t send out a hat with white spots in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}