{"id":3933,"date":"2012-07-24T19:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:13:58","slug":"lemon-chiffon-handwoven-scarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/07\/lemon-chiffon-handwoven-scarves\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Chiffon Handwoven Scarves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most weavers, I have quite a stash of yarns. <\/p>\n

When I’m at a show (not very common for me) and I see yarn I like at a good price, I buy it. Then I come home and have to put it away, and sometimes forget about it. Months later I’m looking in one of my boxes for something, and get a pleasant surprise at finding a yarn I’d forgotten about, particularly when the color & fiber still make me smile.<\/p>\n

That was the case when I found 2 cones of 10\/2 cotton in a color I was calling buttercream. After the scarves were woven I had to change the name – the color was richer yellow than what I think of as buttercream. I opted for lemon chiffon. (The color is much more yellow than it appears in the photos. I’d still call the color in the photos buttercream.)<\/p>\n

I decided to weave some huck lace scarves from it. I love weaving lace, both huck and a variety of Swedish laces. I like the way they look on the loom, the way they wet finish, and the way they please and amaze my customers when they see them hanging at a show.<\/p>\n

I decided on an overall huck threading for this cotton, warped up my little counterbalance loom, and set to weaving. The first two scarves were woven in what I think of as typical huck. (I know I don’t use the correct terms for these lace weaves. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that when I started calling them by ‘my’ names, and somehow can’t seem to get the correct names planted in my brain.)
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\nI’ve woven this pattern in 10\/2, 8\/2 and 5\/2 cotton, cobweb weight cashmere-silk, 100% silk, and rayon. It never fails to please. I think the cottons work best, but it’s pretty much always a winner.<\/p>\n

This time I opted to weave the third scarf in what I call ‘windowpane’ huck. Same threading & treadling, just a different tie up.
\n\"handwoven<\/a>
\nFor some reason (I don’t know why) I haven’t used this option in a while. It does seem a bit more fragile, more prone to snagging a thread while wearing it, but it’s so lovely that people like it anyway.<\/p>\n

The two scarves look so different, it really is magic that they’re so close in structure.
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\nI took all three scarves to my show at Chautauqua Institute in July, and sold all three, bing, bang, boom. Shoulda bought more of that yarn when I saw it – buyer’s remorse in reverse.<\/p>\n

Parting shot:
\nMama Phoebe built her nest in the rafters underneath my porch. She’d just fed her babies and told them to be quiet since I was nearby.
\n\"baby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most weavers, I have quite a stash of yarns. <\/p>\n

When I’m at a show (not very common for me) and I see yarn I like at a good price, I buy it. Then I come home and have to put it away, and sometimes forget about it. Months later I’m looking in one […]<\/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":[530,32,232,227],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-handwoven-lace","tag-handwoven-scarves","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}