{"id":1119,"date":"2010-02-08T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:26:43","slug":"its-surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/02\/its-surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to jump into Jan’s Scarf A Day<\/a> challenge for the month of February. I may not be able to actually make a scarf a day, but what the heck, I may as well try. Besides, Jan only holds herself to 5 days a week, and does extend the completions to towels and other linens as well as scarves. I think I’m probably weaving almost that much without the challenge, so, I’m off, starting with the placemats I finished last weekend.<\/p>\n

Last week I put on a warp, and yesterday I took three handwoven scarves off my beloved counterbalance loom. These will be the last three that I weave in rayon chenille for a while, since I need to get started on the spring and summer weights.
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\nThe three scarves are all made with rayon chenille that was handpainted by the wonderful Tammy of Yarntopia Treasures<\/a>, in a colorway she calls Surreal. I’ve used this colorway before in rayon boucle, and folks really loved it. You’ll remember I also recently finished a handwoven shawl<\/a> using this yarn. For the scarves, I put a thin stripe of solid purple along one edge.<\/p>\n

I used different weft yarns for the three scarves.
\n\"rayon<\/a>The first one was a solid purple that Tammy custom dyed to coordinate with the weft, creating a scarf that striped lengthwise.<\/p>\n

\"rayon<\/a>For the second scarf I used the variegated surreal yarn for both warp and weft, making the scarf darker and almost plaid looking.<\/p>\n

\"rayon<\/a>Finally, I used a rather bright blue solid weft, again custom dyed by Tammy. This scarf is overall the brightest of the three.<\/p>\n

And now to see the three of them together for the comparison.
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\nIt’s much easier to see the differences when they’re side by side.<\/p>\n

I’m off to start on some weaving with a bamboo-cotton blend. Spring scarves, here I come!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to jump into Jan’s Scarf A Day challenge for the month of February. I may not be able to actually make a scarf a day, but what the heck, I may as well try. Besides, Jan only holds herself to 5 days a week, and does extend the completions to towels and other […]<\/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":[227,249],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","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=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}