{"id":5557,"date":"2014-09-20T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2014-09-20T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T23:48:35","slug":"breaking-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/09\/breaking-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I rebel against rules like a teenager, sometimes I find it hard to break them. I figure it’s my Gemini nature. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month I set my goal (aka rule) to do two buckets a day<\/a> of work in my garden. Although there were a few days when the rain prevented it, there were other days when I more than made up for it. Then I did something (too much gardening, perhaps?) and strained my back. I had no choice but to lay off for a few days. Then the weather was so nice and I thought, why would I cut back plants that are still nice and green and looking good? So I skipped a few more days.<\/p>\n

I got back at it and pulled some weeds, then realized that I would not want to do all<\/em> the cutting back after everything was frost-killed and slimy and it was cold out. I’d better get started right now! I decided to start in my bed of Siberian iris. <\/p>\n

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

I actually have two beds of them, one white flowers, the other deep purple. I decided to start in the white bed. It’s roughly 8′ x 12′ and a steep hillside. I’ve now spent more than 3 hours in this bed and cut more than 3 wheelbarrows full of iris leaves.<\/p>\n

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

I still have at least 1\/4 of this bed to do, plus the purple bed, which is fortunately smaller – maybe 8′ x 4′. Then I’m going to do my peonies. I have lots of them, too. <\/p>\n

In between I’ve spent 5 hours already twisting fringe on the gebrochene shawls<\/a>. I still have one more to fringe before I can wet finish & get some good photos. Fringing is a good evening activity while I’m watching the tube – I rarely do it during the day. <\/p>\n

So I’ve put on my next custom weaving order on the loom. This time I’m back on my sweet little counterbalance; I haven’t been able to weave on it for some time. The order is for a scarf in what I call huck checkerboards in a bleached silk. I know in this photo the yarn looks creamy, but it’s not; it’s a pure, clear white.<\/p>\n

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

I put on enough warp for 3 scarves. I’m going to weave 2 in the bleached\/pure white and try the third with a natural silk (not bleached) to see how it looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I rebel against rules like a teenager, sometimes I find it hard to break them. I figure it’s my Gemini nature. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month I set my goal (aka rule) to do two buckets a day of work in my garden. Although there were a few days when the rain prevented it, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,4],"tags":[32,129,227,381],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-weaving","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","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=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}