{"id":5677,"date":"2014-10-21T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2014-10-22T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:30:51","slug":"3-blankies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/10\/3-blankies\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Blankies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have the 3 blankets hemmed, washed & dried. All I need to do now is the hard press. I used a straight twill threading & treadling for all, and I’m quite pleased with how soft they all are.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first one, the custom weave for TB.
\n\"TB's<\/a><\/p>\n

The warp colors are cobalt, bleu, & thin stripes of marine; the weft is cobalt with the thin marine stripes. TB specifically wanted a rolled hem, not binding, so I had to choose which would be the ‘right’ side when I made that hem. I opted to have the side with the deeper colors, what you saw from underneath while still on the loom, be the right side.<\/p>\n

Here’s my niece’s blanket, same warp, woven with all 3 colors in the weft for plaid.
\n\"LC's<\/a><\/p>\n

My niece is pretty serious about the materials for her soon-to-be-born son, so I opted for a rolled hem for her, too, not a polyester satin binding. Again I had to decide which was the right side, and again I opted for the brighter side.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s the 3rd blanket I wove on this warp to have in my stock for shows. This is the only one I photographed with both sides showing so you can see the difference.<\/p>\n

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

I opted to bind it, and I’m not sure that was a good decision. That binding is far more pucker-y than I’d like. Should I take the binding off and try again? Should I revert to a rolled hem? I haven’t yet decided & I’d love your input on this.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I had to buy a new sewing machine….the one I inherited from my mother was behaving badly, despite regular servicing. All I need to do is forward, backward, & zigzag. No fancy stitches needed. So I opted for a Janome model that is supplied to schools.<\/p>\n

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

It didn’t like sewing that slippery binding. As guided by folks on the internet, I reduced both the tension & the stitch length, which definitely helped. If I have to do it again I’ll try with the tissue paper in there, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have the 3 blankets hemmed, washed & dried. All I need to do now is the hard press. I used a straight twill threading & treadling for all, and I’m quite pleased with how soft they all are.<\/p>\n

Here’s the first one, the custom weave for TB. <\/p>\n

The warp colors are cobalt, bleu, […]<\/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":[530,129,568],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","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=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5684,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}