{"id":4901,"date":"2013-11-18T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2013-11-18T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:51:34","slug":"up-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/11\/up-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Against It"},"content":{"rendered":"

You make one mistake and it leads to more problems than you thought.<\/p>\n

Back when I was weaving the sample wrap<\/a>, I used one extra safety pin\/marker, weaving 20″ more than I wanted to. When I finally figured out what I’d done, my first thought was that I wouldn’t have enough warp left to weave Meghan’s ‘real’ wrap. I went to my record sheet and said, “Whew!” I’d have enough warp and some left over.<\/p>\n

Again, Hah!<\/p>\n

When I did that math I didn’t take loom waste into account. There’s thread wasted at the beginning of a piece when you tie it to the loom and thread wasted at the end. I kept my beginning waste to a minimum, although I could have lashed on instead of tying on and made it even less. But no need to…I had enough.<\/p>\n

Till I got to the end. I kept advancing the warp farther and farther, and finally it was about 3″ behind the last harness.<\/p>\n

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

With the end of the warp so close I couldn’t get a good shed anymore. I used a yardstick to separate the threads and stood it on end behind the reed to make a better shed. I wove until I couldn’t fit my shuttle through the shed anymore. Still, I was almost 10″ shorter than I wanted to be. Damn, damn, Double Damn<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Nothing I can do but email Meghan and tell her. She’s an extremely rational woman and suggests a great approach. After I’ve wet finished, pressed, and hemmed the wrap I’ll mail it to her. If it’s long enough for her, great. If not, I’ll weave her another, on a priority basis.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the finished wrap ended up being 180″ long, just an inch or two shorter than I wanted. All my frustration and time consuming fussing at the end of the warp was worth it.<\/p>\n

\"Meghan's<\/a><\/p>\n

It’ll go in tomorrow’s mail to Meghan.<\/p>\n

Today I spent an ungodly amount of time figuring out how to get my computer to print in mirror image so I could print on transfer paper, ultimately making the mandatory permanent labels. I’m not sure they meet all the federal requirements…I’ll change them if I need to.<\/p>\n

I also got the warp measured for a special order of two baby blankets. You’ll see them in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You make one mistake and it leads to more problems than you thought.<\/p>\n

Back when I was weaving the sample wrap, I used one extra safety pin\/marker, weaving 20″ more than I wanted to. When I finally figured out what I’d done, my first thought was that I wouldn’t have enough warp left to weave […]<\/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":[530,568,253],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","tag-macomber","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","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=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}