{"id":3652,"date":"2012-04-27T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2012-05-06T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:41:56","slug":"towel-exchange-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/04\/towel-exchange-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Towel Exchange Follow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just realized that although I showed you the towels<\/a> I made for the exchange, I never showed you the terrific towels I got back. I’m always impressed with the work of other weavers. I’d like to honor them by giving their names, but I’ve decided that I can only responsibly do so when the weaver is online with more than email. Unfortunately, I can’t find any of them in the blogosphere or with a website, and I don’t facebook, so I’ve had to omit all they’re names.<\/p>\n

This weaver used an Ms & Os profile draft for her 4-shaft loom. I’ve never seen Ms & Os in person before, so was glad to get this real-life version.
\n\"blue<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m surprised by the variety of structures people come up with for two shafts. I tend to think more of color and weave effects or hand manipulation rather than creative patterns like this one.
\n\"2<\/a><\/p>\n

This weaver not only sent along the required draft, but also a little bio….and a photo! How sweet was that?! Her towel is a simple rosepath threading with three treadling patterns repeated.
\n\"purple<\/a><\/p>\n

You know, the traditional checks of the towels above and below are so appealing, I wish I’d chosen something more like this than the pattern I did chose. There’s always next time.<\/p>\n

This sweet green & white towel is the only one woven on 8 shafts. It looks deceptively simple. And lovely. I might have to try and work up a similar design on my 4 shaft loom. Just ‘cuz I love the loom so much.
\n\"green<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s another towel that opened my eyes. I would have told you that crackle weave doesn’t appeal to me, but then I saw this towel. I think this is beautiful! And since the darker color is colorgrown cotton, it will only deepen with repeated washing.
\n\"two<\/a><\/p>\n

In keeping with the simple pictures are best<\/a> lesson I try again and again to learn, I think this is my favorite towel.
\n\"oatmeal<\/a>
\nThe weaver said that she broke her foot just before starting the towels, so she searched for a pattern that would be easy to treadle with one foot. She also decided she’d weave with a thicker thread than usual so she didn’t have to be in front of the loom for so long with her bum leg, so made a hand towel instead of a kitchen towel. You’d never know that she had to make any comprimises by the richness of this towel.<\/p>\n

One of the weavers also sent along this sweet little warp rep mug rug. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep it with the towel and now I don’t know who it was.
\n\"mug<\/a><\/p>\n

Yay to weavers in the towel exchange<\/a>! If you’re jealous, you can sign up now for next year’s exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just realized that although I showed you the towels I made for the exchange, I never showed you the terrific towels I got back. I’m always impressed with the work of other weavers. I’d like to honor them by giving their names, but I’ve decided that I can only responsibly do so when 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":[530,304],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}