{"id":3015,"date":"2011-07-30T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2011-07-30T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T23:33:20","slug":"lullaby-handwoven-baby-blankets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/07\/lullaby-handwoven-baby-blankets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lullaby Handwoven Baby Blankets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early this month I got a repeat order from one of my customers. She wanted me to make her a baby blanket, in blue and white, out of bamboo cotton. Some months ago she’d purchased one in pink and cream for a baby girl. She loved the look, and the softness of the fiber, and now a baby boy was coming. I’d woven the pink and cream blanket from hand painted yarn I purchased from Tammy at Yarntopia Treasures<\/a>. So I went back to Tammy and decided on one of her blends called Lullaby. Not only was it a nice, bright blue and white, the name of this colorway is just perfect.<\/p>\n

Tammy dyed what I needed, for the baby blanket and for more bamboo cotton yarn I ordered from her at the same time, and sent them off to me. It arrived while I was up with my new grandson. So immediately upon arriving home I planned out the little blanket and got the loom warped up to make two blankets. This particular customer wanted a small blanket, carriage size, so I could easily weave a straight twill on my counterbalance loom, since doubleweave wasn’t needed. (I don’t generally like to weave baby blankets in plain weave, because I want them to be a soft as possible.)<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long to make those two small handwoven baby blankets. I made them slightly different, and gave my customer her choice. She picked this one, which was woven with the same variegated weft as the warp.
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At her request, I finished this blanket with just a rolled hem. First I sewed a both a straight line and a zigzag stitch along both ends before I cut the blankets apart. Then I rolled and hand hemmed the blanket. I decided that this one was woven a bit more loosely than usual, and because I expected that it would be machine washed and dried, I’d be more comfortable with it wearing well if I followed up with another row of zigzag stitching along the edge of that rolled hem, so I did that, too.<\/p>\n

As with most of my baby blankets, I finished the second one with a polyester satin binding. I also wove this one with 5\/2 white pearl cotton so it looked more stripey than plaid-like.\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I have 3 or 4 skeins of this yarn left, and with just 2 basic colors, my plan at this point is to try preparing the warp so that I can make a false ikat. (Here’s a site about real ikat.<\/a>) However, I know myself; I have lots of plans that don’t reach fruition, often simply because of time. I always have more ideas for cool woven stuff than I have time to weave. <\/p>\n

Your turn: how many of your plans never see the light of day?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early this month I got a repeat order from one of my customers. She wanted me to make her a baby blanket, in blue and white, out of bamboo cotton. Some months ago she’d purchased one in pink and cream for a baby girl. She loved the look, and the softness of the fiber, and […]<\/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":[27,214,530,412],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-baby-blanket","tag-bamboo","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}