{"id":4968,"date":"2013-12-26T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2013-12-26T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:26:19","slug":"christmas-towels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/12\/christmas-towels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Towels #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s December 26 so now I can show you my second batch of Christmas towels. I still have to give two of them tomorrow morning, and mail one to a friend who won’t be home for weeks, but neither of those people will be reading my blog, so it’s safe to proceed.<\/p>\n

After I made the eight towels on the neutral weave, I had to do something with more color. So I set up a warp with white, red, and black in it.<\/p>\n

I wove these and the neutral towels in 8\/2 unmercerized cotton, sett at 21 EPI. I was a bit concerned that they’d be too loose for towels, since this was the sett I’d used for plain weave, but I liked the neutral ones fine after wet finishing so stayed with it for the second batch.<\/p>\n

I wanted to weave half of them in plaid, half with a solid white weft.<\/p>\n

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The first time I made a mistake in my treadling, repeating the 1-2-3-4 treadling with the colored weft, not realizing that I was only supposed to do that with white. I didn’t notice it until I had a set of red and black woven, and by then I decided I didn’t want to unweave it all, I’d follow that pattern for the rest of this towel. Here’s how the elongated plaid looks.
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Then I wove two more towels with the correct treadling for a true plaid. I really like the interplay of colors in these towels.
\n\"plaid<\/a><\/p>\n

I felt like I was running out of time, so needed to do some with a solid white weft to make myself feel better. I used two different treadling patterns…
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\"weave<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how they turned out.
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I decided that for the last one I’d do plain weave. My friend had seen the red & white towels<\/a> I wove last summer and really liked the red parts, so I started weaving with a red weft. I decided I’d do some white and black in the middle, then go back to red. This is my least favorite towel, for sure. I gave it to my neighbor, not my friend.
\n\"red,<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I have to get back to weaving for the juries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s December 26 so now I can show you my second batch of Christmas towels. I still have to give two of them tomorrow morning, and mail one to a friend who won’t be home for weeks, but neither of those people will be reading my blog, so it’s safe to proceed.<\/p>\n

After I made […]<\/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":[530,304],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}