{"id":1030,"date":"2010-01-04T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:47:14","slug":"wonky-edge-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/01\/wonky-edge-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonky Edge Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hanging<\/a>You’d think after weaving a few hundred pieces, I’d know some things instantly. Not so. <\/p>\n

A few days ago<\/a> I talked about weaving on my new\/old Macomber loom. I mentioned that I had a wobbly right selvedge on my cottolin napkins. On the first handwoven napkin, I was too focused on the functioning of the new loom and the new pattern to pay enough attention.<\/p>\n

On the second napkin I was determined to correct the problem. I paid lots of attention to my weaving on the right selvedge. I could make it a bit better, but it wasn’t good. I paid attention to how I did the left selvedge, doing my best to replicate that – no real success. I was frustrated.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden, the light bulb when off in my head. DUH! The problem wasn’t what I was or wasn’t doing with my hands and the shuttle, but rather that the edge threads weren’t the right tension. See those hanging warp threads I added at the edge of the warp? I didn’t have enough weight on them, so they weren’t the same tension as the rest of the warp. That’s why I couldn’t get my right selvedge smooth. <\/p>\n

\"selvedge<\/a>As soon as I figured that out and added the appropriate amount of weight, things went quite smoothly. You can see in the picture exactly where I figured it out, and would be able to find it even if I hadn’t put in the big blue arrow.<\/p>\n

I’m betting I won’t make that <\/em>particular mistake again in my handweaving. There are plenty of new ones to make, I’m sure! Like forgetting to throw the locking weft thread in the Atwater-Bronson lace in a few places on those same napkins, requiring off-loom repairs. <\/p>\n

Ah, well. At least by the time I got to the runner, I was well into the pattern, and got that all right. Overall, I’m happy with my first attempt at handwoven table linens. When I get the napkins fixed and hemmed, I’ll share them with you.<\/p>\n

Your turn — what was one of your light bulb moments in your chosen field of endeavor?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’d think after weaving a few hundred pieces, I’d know some things instantly. Not so. <\/p>\n

A few days ago I talked about weaving on my new\/old Macomber loom. I mentioned that I had a wobbly right selvedge on my cottolin napkins. On the first handwoven napkin, I was too focused on the functioning of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}