{"id":3756,"date":"2012-05-27T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T23:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2012-05-27T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T23:08:05","slug":"twofer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/05\/twofer\/","title":{"rendered":"Twofer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I haven’t posted in a week, today will be a twofer. And you may get more tomorrow, too.<\/p>\n

When I received my latest batch<\/a> of hand painted bamboo-cotton yarn, I got to see some of Tammy’s<\/a> new colorways that I’d ordered. Some I thought were stunning, some verged on being too bright for my tastes. <\/p>\n

I decided to start with one of the latter, a colorway Tammy calls Carnations. It’s the bright pink & orange in the center of this photo.<\/p>\n

\"carnations<\/a>
\nBecause I was concerned about it being a bit too much color, I decided to tone it down some with a stripe of burgundy cotton along one edge.<\/p>\n

I measured the warp for three scarves, beamed the loom, threaded the heddles and set to weaving.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

The first scarf I wove was the one on the top in the photo. I used that same burgundy cotton for weft. I like the way it shows the stripes, but I knew even on the loom that it would be a bit stiffer than I prefer in my scarves.<\/p>\n

So next I used a solid orange bamboo-cotton weft Tammy’d dyed up for me. I find it interesting that with that orange weft, the burgundy stripe appears to be brown, not burgundy at all. Interesting what colors do when they play together, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I really like it the orange scarf; in fact, I’ve worn it a few times. (It’s not as vibrant, in a good way, as it appears in the photo.) However, although I love them, my orange scarves haven’t been big sellers, so I didn’t want to weave the third with that weft also. <\/p>\n

Instead I chose a bright raspberry bamboo-cotton. I was hoping it would be bright without knocking your eyes out of their sockets. I think it is. I also like the way the many other colors in that variegated warp show up.<\/p>\n

All three scarves were threaded in a simple point twill, and treadled simply, too. I’m trying to remember that “simple pictures are best<\/a>” saying, to make it my new motto.<\/p>\n

After all that 1-2-3-4 threading & treadling, I wanted to weave something with more creativity in the weaving pattern, less in the color choices. You know I love to weave lace, so decided I’d try some larger blocks of huck, with alternating warp and weft floats. I call it a huck checkerboard.<\/p>\n

I picked a lovely off-white bamboo and threaded up the loom. I wish I’d taken pictures of this while it was on the loom — to my eye, the monochrome warp and weft floats showed up better then than they have since. C’est la vie.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after I wove one in solid off-white, I thought it would be fun to try one with a contrasting weft, and picked a medium-bright red rayon. Although the floats do show up much better, I’ll stick with the solid color, myself.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

Before I even began weaving the red scarf, I decided I’d give it an added feature of an off-white border with ladder hemstitching. In the past when the weft color differed greatly from the warp color, I’ve found the fringe a bit unsettling – the color difference jarring to my eyes. So I thought the edging would not only make the scarf a little dressier, it would make a nice end transition from the off-white fringe to the red weaving. <\/p>\n

\"ladder<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you agree? <\/p>\n

Your turn: Are you having any celebrations this Memorial Day weekend, or is it a somber time for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I haven’t posted in a week, today will be a twofer. And you may get more tomorrow, too.<\/p>\n

When I received my latest batch of hand painted bamboo-cotton yarn, I got to see some of Tammy’s new colorways that I’d ordered. Some I thought were stunning, some verged on being too bright for my […]<\/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":[214,530,412,232,227],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-lace","tag-handwoven-scarves","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","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=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}