{"id":4619,"date":"2013-06-12T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:59:21","slug":"advancing-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/06\/advancing-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m short of my stock of shawls so went for a warp of 3 rayon in a pattern I haven&#8217;t used before.  I&#8217;m not positive I&#8217;ll use this pattern again, either.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.  The pattern is an 8harness advancing squares pattern, so I wove it on my Mac.  We&#8217;re friends now.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of the first one I wove on my drying rack.  It&#8217;s a seafoam green weft on a navy warp.  This photo doesn&#8217;t show the shawl to its best advantage, nor does it show the color accurately, but does give you the best understanding of the weaving pattern.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/seafoam-stairstep-shawl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/seafoam-stairstep-shawl.jpg\" alt=\"handwoven shawl, seafoam stairstop\" title=\"handwoven-shawl-seafoam-stairstep\" width=\"327\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/seafoam-stairstep-shawl.jpg 327w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/seafoam-stairstep-shawl-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/seafoam-stairstep-shawl-109x150.jpg 109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, while I was weaving I wasn&#8217;t happy with my choice of weft color, but didn&#8217;t make that decision till I was well into it.  Decided to go ahead and make a better choice with the second shawl&#8230;which I wove with a baby blue weft.  This shot doesn&#8217;t show the pattern as clearly, but gives you a better idea of how soft and drape-y the cloth is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl.jpg\" alt=\"handwoven shawl, blue stairstep\" title=\"handwoven-shawl-blue-stairstep\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blue-stairstep-shawl-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the third scarf I used a red-purple weft.  This shot lets you see the lightness of the shawl &#8211; you can see some of the white sheet through it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3.jpg\" alt=\"handwoven shawl, red-purple stairstep\" title=\"handwoven-shawl-red-purple-stairstep\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/red-purple-shawl3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the loom this was absolutely my favorite.  Off the loom it is absolutely my least favorite.  Weird, huh?  I&#8217;m not sure if I prefer the seafoam weft or the baby blue one, but it&#8217;s sure not this one.<\/p>\n<p>As I was pressing these shawls I found several weaving errors on that baby blue one that required quite a bit of time needle-weaving to correct.  It&#8217;s still not perfect, but the best I could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m short of my stock of shawls so went for a warp of 3 rayon in a pattern I haven&#8217;t used before. I&#8217;m not positive I&#8217;ll use this pattern again, either. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. The pattern is an 8harness advancing squares pattern, so I wove it on my Mac. We&#8217;re friends [&#8230;]<\/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":[325,253,556],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-macomber","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","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=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}