{"id":1222,"date":"2010-03-14T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:01:06","slug":"bamboo-log-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/03\/bamboo-log-cabin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Log Cabin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago when I first saw a scarf handwoven in a log cabin pattern, it blew me away. It was completely beyond me how this pattern could possibly be done. I spoke with the weaver, who insisted it was really easy. Huh.<\/p>\n

I could see that it was a tabby weave, but how could you possibly achieve the stained glass look she’d done? I didn’t even attempt it until now.
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m happier with the scarf than I am with the picture. I can’t tell you how many shots I took to get one that was even this good. The colors just don’t show up well, now matter how many adjustments I make on the camera itself or what I try to fix it in Photoshop. So you’ll just have to take my word for it that all the parts that aren’t black are variegated blue & purple. <\/p>\n

Actually, they’re the handpainted blue violet yarn<\/a> that I had already woven four scarves from. \u00c2\u00a0So there’s blue, purple, and green in it. I didn’t want the kind of color dichotomy that many log cabin weaves have, with a very dark color and a very light color – that’s a bit too much for my eyes. With the blue-purple-green combo offset with the black, it is sort of stained-glass-like. <\/p>\n

That blue violet yarn is a bamboo cotton blend, the black is 100% bamboo, resulting in a handwoven scarf that’s 85% bamboo and 15% cotton. So even though it’s a tabby weave, it’s very soft and flexible with all that bamboo in it. <\/p>\n

I have to say, even now having woven a log cabin scarf, it remains rather like magic to me how the pattern comes out of two alternating colors. I don’t know who figured out this color and weave effect, but it’s genius. I can’t wait to try more – different colors, modifications of the pattern, different fibers. For instance, I haven’t seen log cabin in rayon chenille, and think it’d look good. And I wonder what it would look like if you doubled each of the colors, making each color band wider. Or what if you did it all in one color – what would the weaving effect be like then? Would you see it at all?<\/p>\n

Your turn: have you woven log cabin? What worked & what didn’t?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago when I first saw a scarf handwoven in a log cabin pattern, it blew me away. It was completely beyond me how this pattern could possibly be done. I spoke with the weaver, who insisted it was really easy. Huh.<\/p>\n

I could see that it was a tabby weave, but how […]<\/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":[214,227,529],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-log-cabin","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}