{"id":125,"date":"2017-05-15T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-05-18T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:39:50","slug":"queen-annes-lace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-127 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0463.jpg 640w, http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0463-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace blossoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queen Anne\u2019s Lace is everywhere around my neighbourhood at the moment I\u2019ve often seen it mentioned in dye books, but until yesterday hadn\u2019t done anything with the rather delicate flowers.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d been told they can give a good yellow, and \u00a0as it is easy to find, and free , it was worth a test or two<\/p>\n<p>I picked about 20 or so \u00a0heads, \u00a0soaked them in boiling water overnight, and I also soaked some handspun 2 ply in a 15% Alum solution as well.<\/p>\n<p>Each skein was simmered for \u00a0about 30 mins, \u00a0and then some were treated with modifiers, I was happily surprised to see how bright the yellow \u00a0was, and after a washing soda rinse \u00a0lost a little of the greenishness and became slightly more eggy. All told a successful morning, and I\u2019ll be very happy to try it again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0475.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0475.jpg 800w, http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0475-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSCN0475-768x563.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a few names for Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace, <em>Daucus carota , <\/em>\u00a0part of the wild carrot family<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Anne\u2019s Lace is everywhere around my neighbourhood at the moment I\u2019ve often seen it mentioned in dye books, but until yesterday hadn\u2019t done anything with the rather delicate flowers. I&#8217;d been told they can give a good yellow, and \u00a0as it is easy to find, and free , it was worth a test or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/?p=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulhenrykilts.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}