{"id":3487,"date":"2014-05-23T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2014-05-23T08:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:02:02","slug":"set-back-and-regroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"set back and regroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my supposedly preshrunk mercerized cotton shrunk just enough after dyeing that now the cap is too small.  i stretched it as much as possible and it still goes round her head but you can see that it is now too short. \ud83d\ude41  i have ordered more yarn in the right color, since the reason i dyed this in the first place is that i can only get white locally.  i will probably put a white lacy trim on the too small caps for her to wear when she just doesn&#8217;t feel like bothering with hair, so it won&#8217;t be a total loss, but still&#8230;.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/14058513919\/player\/\" width=\"552\" height=\"558\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nin the meantime, i wound off a small skein of yarn and dyed it with coffee again.  as soon as it finishes drying i will make another cap (or 2)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/14222030116\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nruby looks as disgruntled as i am.  mercerized cotton is NOT supposed to shrink.  that is one of the reasons i used it instead of one of the dozens of other fine yarns i have lying around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my supposedly preshrunk mercerized cotton shrunk just enough after dyeing that now the cap is too small. i stretched it as much as possible and it still goes round her head but you can see that it is now too short. \ud83d\ude41 i have ordered more yarn in the right color, since the reason i dyed this in the first place is that i can only get white locally. i will probably put a white lacy trim on the too small caps for her to wear when she just doesn&#8217;t feel like bothering with hair, so it won&#8217;t be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,13],"tags":[347,380,66,61,346,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}