{"id":5432,"date":"2014-07-31T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:43:42","slug":"so-many-not-weaving-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/07\/so-many-not-weaving-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"So many not-weaving tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is a day for doing many business-related tasks that are not weaving. <\/p>\n

One of my fellow artisans kindly pointed out that the black knit dress Dolly (my mannequin) wears at shows looks like granny, while I want to attract younger women to my booth. So I made a few stops at thrift stores to find clothes that would send a different message and still (a) travel well and (b) fade into the background so the weaving I show on her would stand out.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t find things that I thought were perfect, but did find things that I deemed an improvement. I thought a size 8 skirt would fit Dolly well. Hah! She’s clearly much more like a 6, or maybe a 4. So I had to modify the skirt by sewing some snaps in the waistband. Then I hemmed another skirt to be (roughly) above the knee instead of ankle-length.<\/p>\n

Then I had to sew binding on two blankets made from that troublesome piece of mis-warped<\/a> baby wrap.<\/p>\n

Since I had my sewing machine out, I decided there was no time like the present to make a cooling neck wrap. I was so hot at the Roycroft show that I wore a constantly wet bandana-sized lightweight cotton scarf I’d woven around my neck, re-wetting it many times during the day. As a result my blouse was constantly wet, too. I didn’t care. <\/p>\n

I have 2 shows in August, and while the temps have been much cooler than average this summer, that could change in a heartbeat. So I took another piece of the same lightweight cotton (I knew I’d saved that for a reason!) and sewed it into a strip. I had some plant water-saver beads for the filling.<\/p>\n

I used the proportions from this tutorial<\/a>, putting 1\/2 teaspoon of beads in 3″ of the fabric. That did NOT seem like enough to me. So I soaked the first finished neck wrap in water for about 10 minutes before I worked on the second one.<\/p>\n

WOW! What a difference!<\/p>\n

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From this angle, the soaked neck cooler reminded me of an illustration<\/a> in that lovely book, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The one of the snake that ate an elephant. If you don’t know the book, you should. An electronic version won’t do – borrow it from the library so you can see the illustrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Today is a day for doing many business-related tasks that are not weaving. <\/p>\n

One of my fellow artisans kindly pointed out that the black knit dress Dolly (my mannequin) wears at shows looks like granny, while I want to attract younger women to my booth. So I made a few stops at thrift […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","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=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}