{"id":4463,"date":"2013-03-26T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2013-03-24T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:33:02","slug":"a-new-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/03\/a-new-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman I know did me a favor. I tried to return that favor with some weaving but she wouldn’t let me – she insisted on paying me. <\/p>\n

There’s more than one way to skin a cat, you know. I just had to get more creative. I decided I’d make her a scarf and mail it to her, just like she mailed her check to me. I wanted to make something really classy and try a new technique.<\/p>\n

I started by deciding on the weaving pattern – I would use the classic drall<\/a> since I like it so much. I wanted a neutral so figured I’d use a combination of a shiny tencel and a matte unmercerized cotton, both in natural – undyed & unbleached.<\/p>\n

The scarf came out lovely.
\n\"handwoven<\/a>
\nThe contrast between the two threads worked just as I hoped it would.<\/p>\n

But the job wasn’t done yet. I wanted to take another lesson from Susan Harvey<\/a> and make a beaded fringe. It took me longer than I thought it would – about 45 minutes per end – but I love the finished product.
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, I’m going to hang on to this long enough to submit it as one of my annual work submissions for Roycrofters At Large Artisan<\/a> status. I’m also going to do more of this on some of my scarves and shawls and see how my customers like them this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman I know did me a favor. I tried to return that favor with some weaving but she wouldn’t let me – she insisted on paying me. <\/p>\n

There’s more than one way to skin a cat, you know. I just had to get more creative. I decided I’d make her a scarf and […]<\/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":[563,530,227,556],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-beading","tag-cotton","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","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=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}