{"id":3256,"date":"2011-11-22T19:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2011-11-23T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T00:43:41","slug":"weaving-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/11\/weaving-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While certainly not exclusively for the holidays by any means, these handwoven cashmere &#038; silk scarves are such a lovely, rich color, they make me think of the mid-winter holiday season.  Hopefully people who come to either the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralaweb.com\/html_pages\/festivals.html#winter\" target=\"_blank\"> Roycroft Winter Festival<\/a> and my local <a href=\"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/shows.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Show<\/a> think so, too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk.jpg\" alt=\"handwoven cashmere &amp; silk scarves, brick\" title=\"handwoven-cashmere-scarves-brick\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/brick-cash-silk-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I again tried a new huck lace pattern &#8211; the one at the bottom of the picture.  And again, I much prefer the old standby of Swedish Lace, at the top.  The lace diamonds don&#8217;t show up in the bottom until you view it at just the right angle, and it doesn&#8217;t do the lacy thing anywhere near as well as the Swedish Lace blocks.  But I&#8217;d never have known that without trying it.<\/p>\n<p>So I wound a warp for three scarves, threaded up for the new huck lace diamonds, and wove the first scarf.  Even while I was weaving I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be one of my favorites, so I cut it off and totally re-threaded heddles and reed, and wove the last two in the Swedish Lace blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While certainly not exclusively for the holidays by any means, these handwoven cashmere &#038; silk scarves are such a lovely, rich color, they make me think of the mid-winter holiday season. Hopefully people who come to either the Roycroft Winter Festival and my local Holiday Show think so, too. <\/p>\n<p>I again tried a new [&#8230;]<\/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":[358,232,227,381],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cashmere","tag-handwoven-lace","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","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=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}