{"id":2592,"date":"2014-12-25T06:06:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T11:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2014-12-25T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T11:08:21","slug":"spinning-because-knitting-isnt-weird-enough-lisa-smith-sogalo15-2015-01-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/spinning-because-knitting-isnt-weird-enough-lisa-smith-sogalo15-2015-01-24.html","title":{"rendered":"Spinning&#8230; because knitting isn&#8217;t weird enough &#8211;Lisa Smith @ SOGALO15 2015-01-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nHow to make your own yarn.\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisathemom.com\/1\/post\/2013\/11\/living-history-spinning-wool-at-the-georgia-museum-of-agriculture.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lisathemom.com\/uploads\/2\/4\/5\/3\/24537318\/1384188357.png\"><\/a>\r\nI&#8217;ll be demonstrating how to prepare and spin natural fibers\r\nincluding different breeds of sheeps wool, angora and mohair into\r\nyarn using a spinning wheel. I&#8217;ll also show items that can be\r\nknitted or woven from your own handspun yarns.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nLisa Smith is an avid sock knitter who one day decided to learn to\r\nspin her own sock yarn. This adventure eventually led to the\r\npurchase of Smokey, her hillbilly French angora rabbit, numerous\r\nsheep fleeces and a houseful of fuzz.\r\nHer blog is\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisathemom.com\">\r\nwww.lisathemom.com<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nCome hear Lisa at\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/s-ga-growing-local-2015\">\r\nSouth Georgia Growing Local 2015<\/a>,\r\nJanuary 24<small><sup>th<\/sup><\/small> 2015,\r\nPine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to make your own yarn. I&#8217;ll be demonstrating how to prepare and spin natural fibers including different breeds of sheeps wool, angora and mohair into yarn using a spinning wheel. I&#8217;ll also show items that can be knitted or woven from your own handspun yarns. Lisa Smith is an avid sock knitter who one [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,43,2628],"tags":[2680,2761,2777,3,23,2686,2,2760,588,2457,2841,2679,2539,2689,2687,2688],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-gardening","category-sogalo15","tag-24-january-2015","tag-agriculture","tag-gardening","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lisa-smith","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-opf","tag-pine-grove-middle-school","tag-sogalo15","tag-south-georgia-growing-local-2015","tag-spinning","tag-spinning-wheel","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-FO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}