{"id":4837,"date":"2013-10-13T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2013-10-07T18:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T23:35:43","slug":"handwoven-baby-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/10\/handwoven-baby-wraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Baby Wraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early September I got an email from a woman who’d seen my website and wanted to know if I’d weave her a custom baby wrap. I’m happy to do so, so we exchanged lots of emails to decide on pattern (hearts), color, size, and price by late in the month.<\/p>\n

While this exchange was going on I got an email from a second woman. She and her friend wanted custom baby wraps, too, again in a hearts pattern.<\/p>\n

Again we agreed on colors, so I combined the two requests and placed an order with The Woolery for Maurice Brassard’s 8\/2 mercerized cotton. The box arrived – 32 cones of cotton and 3 cones of linen. Isn’t it pretty?!<\/p>\n

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In my initial planning I estimated for 21 ends per inch (EPI). The more I read and thought about it, the more I realized that is would not produce a strong enough cloth. Especially since the new issue of Handwoven arrived, with instructions for a baby wrap in rosepath, woven at 30 EPI. Thankfully, I have enough yarn of each color to do this, although it ups the number of threads from 675 to 940. Lots of warp measuring, lots of heddle and reed threading.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, I had to order more heddles for my Macomber. I only have 800 heddles on this loom, so the change in EPI meant I needed an additional 140 heddles. I got an unhappy surprise when I learned that it’s pretty impossible to get flat steel heddles these days. I ordered insert eye heddles. I hope I like them okay.<\/p>\n

Now I’m going to order a warping mill – it should make the measuring of all those threads go much quicker than my warping board.<\/p>\n

My first warp will be for two wraps, one for the customer order and one for sampling. I need to weave an entire wrap, cut it off the loom, and wet finish it to determine strength, flexibility, and shrinkage. Only then will I know if 30 EPI is correct. I’m hoping I can go down to 28 EPI for future wraps, saving myself about 40 ends of measuring and threading. But if I can’t, I can’t — it’s only 40 threads, after all. I’d WAY prefer a high quality product than to save a few minutes here and there.<\/p>\n

Since I ordered this yarn, I’ve had two more inquiries for baby wraps. Guess I know what I’ll be weaving for a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In early September I got an email from a woman who’d seen my website and wanted to know if I’d weave her a custom baby wrap. I’m happy to do so, so we exchanged lots of emails to decide on pattern (hearts), color, size, and price by late in the month.<\/p>\n

While this exchange was […]<\/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":[530,129,568,253],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","tag-macomber","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","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=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}