{"id":10288,"date":"2020-06-19T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=10288"},"modified":"2020-06-19T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T13:47:20","slug":"finding-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2020\/06\/finding-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s happened again.  Too many days have passed without a new post.  In my defense, I have been busy.  And have posted on Facebook for those of you who are there.  But not here.  My bad.<\/p>\n<p>So what have I been doing?  Of course some weaving.  As planned I wove a batch of circles, 9 in fact. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line.jpg\" alt=\"9 handwoven Finding the Rainbow towels\" width=\"750\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line.jpg 750w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/9-FTR-towels-on-line-400x131.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they are in groups of three.  <\/p>\n<p>I sold the first two of these before they went online to my biggest fan (aka sister).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words.jpg\" alt=\"orange, periwinkle, and turquoise towels\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words.jpg 600w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-1-3-words-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lilac towel from this grouping and turquoise from the first grouping are on their way to Australia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words.jpg\" alt=\"light blue, dark blue &amp; lilac towels\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words.jpg 600w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-4-6-words-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last two towels in this grouping were sold before they hit Facebook as well, to my second biggest fan (aka friend).  I wasn&#8217;t sure if I&#8217;d like the elongation of some of the circles so only did it on the last towel.  I will do that again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy.jpg\" alt=\"salmon, scarlet, and pink towels\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FTR-towels-7-9-copy-400x259.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted mid-day on Wednesday and by Thursday evening only have the light blue one left.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m preparing yet another warp of towels.  I&#8217;m going to return to the squares as I like the &#8216;solidity&#8217; of their colors, but I&#8217;m going to take some learning from the circles.  First, my warp, which has been 6 colors, will be arranged in a bright rainbow.  Second, I&#8217;m planning to vary some of the sizes of the squares.  Yeah, there will be some rectangles.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all my towel weaving, I&#8217;m enrolled in an online class on Deflected Double Weave at the <a href=\"http:\/\/weaversguildofrochester.org\/center\/about-the-center\">Weaving &#038; Fiber Arts Center<\/a>.  This is our first attempt, pushed by the pandemic, and I definitely wanted to be in on it to see how it works.  So I have the warp measured for that and will need to get it on the loom and threaded before Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>I had signed up for the Weave-Along with Tien Chiu and Janet Dawson to get more brave with my color choices, but felt too overwhelmed and bailed.  <\/p>\n<p>After discussion with a friend, I&#8217;m having her come and video my process of getting a warp on my loom, as I use some processes that others might find useful.  Or not.  I&#8217;d thought about whether this could be a Zoom lecture for the Center, but decided just doing a video made more sense.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d signed up for a CSA way back in February.  Yesterday was my first pickup, and I got 5 of my favorites: asparagus, sugar snap peas, lettuce, strawberries, and rhubarb.  So *had* to make a strawberry-rhubarb crisp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp.jpg\" alt=\"strawberry rhubarb crisp\" width=\"500\" height=\"655\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-400x524.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As they say on the worst commercials &#8211; But wait &#8211; there&#8217;s more!<\/p>\n<p>My daughter and son-in-law gave me my birthday present a few weeks early.  And it is a whopper &#8211; an inflatable kayak!  I LOVE IT!!!!  It&#8217;s made of heavy-duty material, sort of like an inner tube of old.  From pulling it out of my trunk to putting it in the water takes me about 15 minutes and then I&#8217;m off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay.jpg\" alt=\"kayaking on the bay\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/on-the-bay-400x534.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve been on Irondequoit Creek, Irondequoit Bay, and the Erie Canal.  More water trips to come, for sure!<\/p>\n<p>And then I decided I wanted to make some kindness rocks.  So much easier and longer lasting than writing on my sidewalk, which I did twice.  I took a walk and gathered these rocks, then painted them with the only outdoor paint I have, a lavendar\/periwinkle color.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"painted rocks\" width=\"500\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/painted-rocks-400x397.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every other day or so I write\/draw on a rock with the only 2 sharpies I have and take it with me when I go on my morning walk.  I put it someplace where it will be seen without getting in the way of a lawn mower or weed wacker.  Here&#8217;s my latest rock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock.jpg\" alt=\"kindness rock\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-rock-400x375.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember exactly where I&#8217;ve placed them all, but find it interesting that 3 of the ones I placed are no longer where I&#8217;ve put them.  I&#8217;ve decided to think of this as a good thing, that they were picked up and put somewhere else so even more people get to enjoy them.  That&#8217;s my story and I&#8217;m sticking to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s happened again. Too many days have passed without a new post. In my defense, I have been busy. And have posted on Facebook for those of you who are there. But not here. My bad.<\/p>\n<p>So what have I been doing? Of course some weaving. 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