{"id":6020,"date":"2015-02-03T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2015-02-03T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:16:21","slug":"pick-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/02\/pick-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick one"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave each of the three red-gradient shawls their hard press today, knowing in advance that this would be where I would decide which was best for a hands-on jury.<\/p>\n

I think the gold silk weft is my favorite from a distance of 1-3′. <\/p>\n

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

Closer than that I think the beat looks a bit uneven. Worse, in the photo you can see a treadling error. So it’s out.<\/p>\n

Next up for me is the silver silk weft. I like the contrast with the reds and the beat is nice and even.<\/p>\n

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

Unfortunately there’s some kind of imperfection. I can’t figure out what caused it, but it’s really obvious up close. So it’s out, too.<\/p>\n

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

That leaves the navy rayon weft. <\/p>\n

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

Although I don’t think it’s the most photogenic, it has an even beat and no imperfections. That’s the one I’ll submit for hands-on jurying.<\/p>\n

Thought you might like to see how different the two sides of this weaving look…this happens to be the gold weft.<\/p>\n

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

Tobie asked for the draft of this pattern. Here’s a bit of it.
\n\"reds<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought I could upload and link to a wif file, but apparently I can’t. So if you want the full wif download, email me (peg at handwovenscarves dot com) and I’ll send it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave each of the three red-gradient shawls their hard press today, knowing in advance that this would be where I would decide which was best for a hands-on jury.<\/p>\n

I think the gold silk weft is my favorite from a distance of 1-3′. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Closer than that I think the beat looks a […]<\/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":[325,528,381],"class_list":["post-6020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-rayon","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020","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=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}