{"id":3270,"date":"2011-12-06T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2011-12-06T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T23:42:07","slug":"weaving-catch-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/12\/weaving-catch-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, I’ve been away from my blog for weeks. I’m guessing it bothers me more than it bothers my readers, especially since there aren’t thousands of you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I was weaving as fast as I could in preparation for the Roycroft Winter Festival, and barely had time to take photos of the finished scarves, much less write about them. In between weaving, I was also working feverishly with a score of volunteers to sell, decorate, and distribute 381 wreaths for Pfeiffer Nature Center<\/a>. So here’s what I got finished in the last weeks before the show.<\/p>\n

First I wove up some gorgeous hand painted<\/a> rayon chenille in a Silver Linings colorway.
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\nOn top is a scarf that has the same hand painted yarn for both warp and weft. For the bottom scarf, I used a solid weft in a bluish-grayish color that coordinated perfectly. I sold the one with the solid weft at the show.<\/p>\n

Then I wove with another hand painted yarn, this time in an amazingly deep, rich Ocean Waves. I’ve used this colorway before, in a variety of fibers, but this time the dye was darker, deeper, and more luxurious than ever before. The photo doesn’t do it justice.
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\nI sold two of these over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Next I had to try a new fiber – bamboo chenille. This was a solid color that the manufacturer called cliff, but I’m calling Sand. I think it will provide the same great wear results as rayon chenille, because I believe that both fibers are created in essentially the same process.
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\nI was surprised that these scarves didn’t attract a lot of attention at the show. I thought their neutrality would be really appealing.<\/p>\n

Then I finished up my weaving with another solid color rayon chenille weft, one the manufacturer calls Tangier. From left to right are scarves that use the same weft as warp, a darker solid weft, and a space-dyed weft.
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\nI called the middle one Burnished Copper, and the scarf on the right Fire In The Hills. Again, I was surprised that these scarves didn’t attract more attention over the weekend. Interestingly, my sister (who helps me at many shows) and I had completely different preferences for the scarves. In order, I prefer middle, left, right; she likes right, middle, left. Apparently most folks chose none of the above.<\/p>\n

In addition to these scarves, I sold two of the brick cashmere & silk scarves<\/a> (sorry the photo makes them look more orange than they really are) and one of the dusty rose silks<\/a>, along with a variety of other scarves. Both of my new rayon chenille shawls (rainbow<\/a> & gray<\/a>) jumped off the shelf – I’m sure I could have sold each a few times if I’d had duplicates.<\/p>\n

I also sold 4 Victorian Christmas ornaments, including my two most recent creations<\/a>, and 14 bookmarks – glad I had woven up a 13 the day before set up!<\/p>\n

Among other post-show duties, yesterday I made a sterling silver necklace<\/a> I had an order for — my customer had been waiting patiently for two weeks.<\/p>\n

Now I have to buy Christmas gifts, write & send out Christmas cards, and make some more gifts. In between working. And having another show, thankfully small & local, this coming weekend. And trying to eat right, exercise, wash dishes, etc., etc., etc. YOU know how it is! I’ll get back to this as I can, showing you the cool stuff I wove as a demo at the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, I’ve been away from my blog for weeks. I’m guessing it bothers me more than it bothers my readers, especially since there aren’t thousands of you. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I was weaving as fast as I could in preparation for the Roycroft Winter Festival, and barely had time to take photos of the […]<\/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":[227,325,249],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","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=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}