{"id":4491,"date":"2013-04-02T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2013-03-31T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:51:35","slug":"im-weaving-as-fast-as-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/04\/im-weaving-as-fast-as-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m weaving as fast as I can"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I’d woven 34 towels, placemats, napkins, and runners since January 1 I was WAY far behind in my count on scarves & shawls. Like 2 dozen<\/em> behind. And since I have no idea how well these linens will sell, that’s a rather nerve-racking place to be.<\/p>\n

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

So now I’m weaving as fast as I can. For me that means I’m using some hand painted yarns because the colors do the show in them. I’ve learned that I need to keep my weave patterns simple, so little to no design time. Also, if I used bamboo-cotton, I wouldn’t need to twist the fringe…it’s fine just left plain. I started with some of Tammy<\/a>‘s bamboo-cotton, in a colorway she calls Magic Kingdom.<\/p>\n

I wove two with a solid azure weft and one with a solid forest weft.
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

When I wove the first azure scarf I thought it was too bright so wove the forest next. I thought it was too dark & went back to the azure. After wet finishing I like them both.<\/p>\n

Back to the warping board!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I’d woven 34 towels, placemats, napkins, and runners since January 1 I was WAY far behind in my count on scarves & shawls. Like 2 dozen behind. And since I have no idea how well these linens will sell, that’s a rather nerve-racking place to be.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So now I’m weaving as fast as […]<\/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":[214,530,227],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-cotton","tag-handwoven-scarves","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","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=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}