{"id":3865,"date":"2012-06-29T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2012-06-29T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:28:46","slug":"fixing-silver-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/06\/fixing-silver-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Silver Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago a woman purchased one of my handwoven shawls. It was a hand painted relatively heavy rayon in a colorway called Silver Bells.<\/p>\n

In May she brought it to one of my shows asking if I could fix a hole that happened in the shawl. She had no idea what caused the hole. Nor did I, although I don’t think it was the result of either poor weaving or poor yarn, but I’ll never know. I wish I’d taken a photo of the hole before I started fixing it. Ahhhhhh, hindsight.<\/p>\n

I came home from the show and did find a small ball of the solid silver yarn; I’d used up all the variegated yarn. I never claimed to be particularly good at needle weaving up a hole, but I did my best. I’m sure from a distance it won’t be too <\/em>noticeable, despite the fact that I don’t like the way it looks.
\n\"repaired<\/a><\/p>\n

After I’d done the weaving, I wasn’t overly confident in how it would wear. After all, the yarn is fairly heavy, and there were LOTS of broken ends in both warp and weft when I received it for repair. So despite what I did with a single length of yarn to weave in the hole, I was concerned about fraying. <\/p>\n

I spoke to my customer and told her my concerns, and that I’d heard about a product that may help if she’d like to wait till I got some and tried it. She did, so I did. <\/p>\n

That product is Fray Check by Dritz. Interestingly, when I did my online research about it, I learned that people either love it or hate it. Doesn’t seem to be an in between with this stuff. I figured I’d give it a go.<\/p>\n

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

I found some at Joann’s. I made myself a little cardboard frame and wove up a tiny sample just so I could test and see if the Fray Check stained the cloth. When I was about half way through this time consuming process I realized it would have been much quicker to knit up a little square, but I was too far into it by then. In any case, no stain was left on my sample, so I went ahead and used in on both sides of the shawl around the repaired spot.<\/p>\n

Here’s a closeup, after drying. Not pretty, but no stain.<\/p>\n

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

I’ve already decided that I’m not charging for this repair. And if it doesn’t keep my customer happy, I’ll make some deal with her for a replacement shawl — not free, but not full price, either. I’d much rather have a satisfied customer than a little more money. That’s how I roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago a woman purchased one of my handwoven shawls. It was a hand painted relatively heavy rayon in a colorway called Silver Bells.<\/p>\n

In May she brought it to one of my shows asking if I could fix a hole that happened in the shawl. She had no idea what caused 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":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}