{"id":5255,"date":"2014-05-03T07:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2014-05-03T07:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:03:23","slug":"april-towels-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/05\/april-towels-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"April Towels Bring&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;frustration, in this case.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels.jpg\" alt=\"April handwoven towels\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/april-towels-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After fighting with the warp to get it beamed, I fought with it for most of the weaving, too.<\/p>\n<p>I wove one towel &#038; had to cut it off &#038; re-tie because the warp was so poorly tensioned.  All will be well now, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Hah!<\/p>\n<p>I had to weave on the tightest tension I could possibly achieve on my little counterbalance loom in order to have a clear shed and good selvedges, and that meant I had broken warp threads.  Pretty much on every towel.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, my selvedges look like a beginner wove them, not up to my usual standards AT ALL.<\/p>\n<p>Then it took me most of a day to do the finish work &#8211; machine stitch a single line, make the hem &#038; machine stitch that, hand hem the side of each hem, needle weave in all ends from the broken warp threads.<\/p>\n<p>Finally throw them in the washer &#038; dryer.  Whew!  I still have to hard press them all.<\/p>\n<p>I used some of that variegated cotton from the baby wrap weft for added interest, and I wove with 4 different weft colors &#8211; 2 of each: white, palest blue, medium blue, and palest green.<\/p>\n<p>Then I spent way too much time designing posters for my Community Weaving Project, designing &#038; sending out emails for my show Mother&#8217;s Day weekend, and <\/p>\n<p>When I get them all pressed I&#8217;ll show you, as long as you realize that the differences are pretty subtle.  <\/p>\n<p>Right now I have to take a shower and go to my Guild meeting.  Looking forward to spending time with those kindred spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;frustration, in this case. <\/p>\n<p>After fighting with the warp to get it beamed, I fought with it for most of the weaving, too.<\/p>\n<p>I wove one towel &#038; had to cut it off &#038; re-tie because the warp was so poorly tensioned. All will be well now, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Hah!<\/p>\n<p>I had to weave [&#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":[566,530,32,304],"class_list":["post-5255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-community-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255","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=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}