{"id":3020,"date":"2011-08-03T20:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2011-08-03T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:11:18","slug":"rayon-scarves-not-my-favs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/08\/rayon-scarves-not-my-favs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayon Scarves – Not my favs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried three wefts to make this interesting warp shine, none were great. I tried many arrangements of photos to show the scarves to their best advantage; none of them were great, either. Do the scarves somehow know that they’re not one of my favorites and they’re purposely being obstinant? Of course not, but I can imagine that they do.<\/p>\n

Anyway, when I was at MAFA<\/a> I bought a bunch of yarn from vendors there. Obviously I liked it all or I wouldn’t have made the purchases. But somehow this one looked better on the cone than in a completed item. No clue why.<\/p>\n

One more thing before I start sharing the pix. My sweet, amazingly supportive and generous sister bought me a mannequin for my birthday. It can stand independently (although I need to craft a base for it to do so) or hang. The purpose was to give me another alternative for taking photos for my website<\/a>. I figured I’d better get some experience working with Dolly (I’ve decided she should have a name) before I wanted to get really great website photos. Doing so has convinced me that I need to have 2 photos of a bunch of items on the website. More distant shots showing size, drape, and a few wrapping options, with closeups continuing to show the detail of color, fiber, and weaving pattern.<\/p>\n

Ok, enough talk, here you go. The weft is the same for all 3 scarves, an attractive blend of a few shades of blue, light green, and a bit of purple. I wove the first scarf with a navy weft in an extended diamond point twill. \"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d learned that old saw – black intensifies, white washes out, and gray muddies. So I figured (for this and some other recent pieces) I should choose the darkest weft color to bring out the warp variations. Trust me when I tell you that the pattern & color show up better in this picture than they do in real life, where they all sort of blend together in one indistinguishable, shiny swath.<\/p>\n

Because I wasn’t thrilled with the dark weft, for the second scarf I chose an icy-colored green.
\n\"handwoven<\/a> It was okay, but didn’t send me. Again, a bit too shiny, and now too light.<\/p>\n

So for the third scarf I said the heck with it, and choose a rich, royal purple, one of my favorite colors, even though it’s just occassionally in the warp.
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

Since the scarves weren’t behaving as I wanted them to anyway, I decided to change things up a bit for the final scarf. I wove each end in the same extended diamond point twill diamonds as the first two scarves. I then transitioned to a regular point twill for the majority of the length, inserting a modified diamond twill in the center of the scarf. Again, the pattern variations show up better in the photo than in real life. I find that so odd, since the colors didn’t photograph well at all.<\/p>\n

Careful observers will see that Dolly’s dress isn’t hanging straight in the 1st & last photo – the waist is hitched up oddly on the left side. Of course, I didn’t notice it till I’d taken most of my photos of these and other scarves you’ll see in the next few days and uploaded them to my computer. Since I was only doing this for practice, I decided I wasn’t going to go back and re-shoot. Now I know that’s something I should pay attention to before I click the shutter.<\/p>\n

I’ve completed nine more scarves you’ll see very soon, and am working on yet another new pattern. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried three wefts to make this interesting warp shine, none were great. I tried many arrangements of photos to show the scarves to their best advantage; none of them were great, either. Do the scarves somehow know that they’re not one of my favorites and they’re purposely being obstinant? Of course not, but I […]<\/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":[227,528],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}