{"id":13802,"date":"2011-08-17T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2011\/08\/17\/roving.html"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:02:22","slug":"roving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2011\/08\/17\/roving\/","title":{"rendered":"roving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A roving, says Wikipedia, is &ldquo;a long and narrow bundle of fibre [...] usually used to spin woollen yarn.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I'm sure y'all fibre-arts people knew that already, but I hadn't heard it before.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia also says that a roving (I can't even type that without wanting to add &ldquo;a-roving, for roving's been my ru-i-in&rdquo;) can be used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/thrumfaq.html\">thrummed<\/a> knitting; another term I hadn't heard (in this context) before. The linked-to site says that a thrum is &ldquo;a little wisp of unspun fleece or roving that is knit into your project every so often,&rdquo; and adds that &ldquo;Thrumming makes the insides soft and fuzzy, and freakishly warm.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, thrumming does that to me, too. &mdash;never mind.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roving, says Wikipedia, is &ldquo;a long and narrow bundle of fibre [&#8230;] usually used to spin woollen yarn.&rdquo; I&#8217;m sure y&#8217;all fibre-arts people knew that already, but I hadn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}