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<\/a>\nFirst I made this handwoven shawl from 100% cotton. It’s bright white and obviously woven in a very lacy pattern – a huck lace, in fact. Like most of my handwoven lace, I wove this shawl on my four-harness counterbalance loom. For this piece I used Cotton Tale 8, an 8\/4 cotton yarn. It offers a nice weight without being too warm, and remains flexible.<\/p>\n
I must say, however, that it wasn’t the most fun to weave. It was my first experience with yarn that had clearly been woven on the cone backwards. In fact, when people talked about it before, I didn’t really know what they meant. I do now! The yarn twisted on itself constantly<\/em>. There’s lots of white rayon chenille left on this cone, but you can bet I’ll find it worth the time to wind it off into balls, effectively reversing the direction of the wind, before I use it again!<\/p>\n Because the white chenille is a tad thicker than the blue chenille, it was also a challenge to maintain even tension across the width of the weaving. In fact, when I was about 1\/2 way through, I rolled it all forward and re-tied it on the back beam to even it out. I still ended up with a fair number of hanging weights by the time I was done. I’m sure glad I didn’t warp for more than one of these!<\/p>\n I don’t yet have either of these handwoven shawls on my website<\/a>, but I will be bringing them to the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts <\/a>this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop and visit me if you’re in the area – I’ll be near the corner of Elmwood & Auburn.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If I come home with them, they’ll go on the web next week.<\/p>\n Your turn: what have you learned the hard way?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know it’s only August, but out here in the sticks our evenings are already getting chilly. Fall is in the air at night, and sometimes even during the day. So I figured it was time to weave some more shawls. Since summer will last another month, I didn’t want to make anything too heavy […]<\/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":[232,249,537],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-lace","tag-rayon-chenille","tag-shawl","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>I got inspired by the white, and decided to weave some rayon chenille. A bit warmer than the cotton lace shawl, the clarity of the the bright white still seemed summery to me. This one was fun to plan, going from 100% white to 100% blue across the width of the handwoven shawl. Like all rayon chenille, this has a great drape and lots of sheen.<\/p>\n