{"id":1711,"date":"2010-10-27T05:09:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:55:27","slug":"handwoven-rayon-chenille-scarves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/10\/handwoven-rayon-chenille-scarves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Rayon Chenille Scarves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe lovely Tammy<\/a> has come through again, hand painting<\/a> yarn that’s absolutely stunning! Of course, I love all of her work or I wouldn’t keep buying it, but this last batch of rayon chenille is truly amazing. Tammy says that her process remains the same, what changes is the actual yarn she buys. Some manufacturers (or is it some yarn-making processes?) make yarn that accepts dyes particularly well.<\/p>\n

In any case, I ordered her Chino colorway, which I’ve used before & liked. When I was winding it into balls & measuring it on the warping board, the colors seemed more vibrant than usual. But when I got it on the loom — oh, my! There were at least three shades each of brown, green, blue, and purple, each distinct and beautiful.<\/p>\n

I’d ordered solid brown yarn to use as weft, which is what I’d done before and liked. This time, I thought the brown was nice (right in the photo), but that it didn’t show off all the colors in the warp to their best, completely obliterating the lighter colors. So I used the rule that dark intensifies, and did the second scarf in the warp using a very dark rayon chenille I had — a machine-dyed yarn that’s black, dark purple, and dark brown (left, above). It certainly presented a different look, but those light colors still got lost. I reverted back to the solid brown for the third scarf.<\/p>\n

Unlike my usual pattern of behavior, this time I actually got the scarves up on my website <\/a>before<\/em> I put up this post. With the cold weather right around the corner and my prior stock of rayon chenille scarves dramatically depleted, I want to get all the new scarves up ASAP to give people choices. I have more handwoven rayon chenille drying in my bathroom as we speak, so I hope to get it photographed and posted on both website and blog in the next day or two.<\/p>\n

Your turn: what colors near you have really struck your eye lately?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lovely Tammy has come through again, hand painting yarn that’s absolutely stunning! Of course, I love all of her work or I wouldn’t keep buying it, but this last batch of rayon chenille is truly amazing. Tammy says that her process remains the same, what changes is the actual yarn she buys. Some […]<\/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":[412,249],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}