{"id":6111,"date":"2015-03-01T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2015-03-01T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T23:16:06","slug":"in-like-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/03\/in-like-a-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"In Like a Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday & Saturday afternoons the weather was just lovely. Although the temperature wasn’t high, the breeze on my face felt more like spring than the bitter wind of winter. I took my old camera outside with me Saturday afternoon and took some pictures of the sweetness of animal tracks in the snow.<\/p>\n

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Today is the first of the month and March is certainly coming in like a lion – I think we’ve had about 4″ of snow fall today. I hope that the old saying is correct, that if March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb. I’m definitely tired of winter. Of bitter temps. Of shoveling. <\/p>\n

On the weaving front, by yesterday afternoon I had finished winding the warp for the next baby wraps. Here’s a shot of the 6 bouts on my warping valet, ready for beaming.<\/p>\n

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Baby wraps offer me what seem to be unending opportunities for learning. Sometimes learning the same thing over again. This time the lesson was something I was told way back in elementary school – go with your first answer. <\/p>\n

In this case, my first answer was, sorry, I can’t do what you’re asking. I later relented, and wished I hadn’t while I was winding and beaming the warp. The question: will I warp long enough for 2 long and 1 short wrap? At first I somewhat reluctantly said I would, since the desired total finished length was 10 Meters, my maximum willingness\/ability. As planning progressed, the requests expanded to 11M. I said I couldn’t do it, and the involved moms made modification to bring it back to the 10M.<\/p>\n

But I didn’t let it rest. The mom who backed down was EL, the woman who’d designed the warp. Her 2 sister wraps were going to get what they wanted, and in my mind, EL should, too. So I told her I’d do my best to get her the length she wanted. Now, mind you, this was my decision – I got no pressure from mom. But I won’t do this length again.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in the last post, that meant I had to wind the warp in 6 bouts instead of 4. Then the beaming was a bit of a bear. All of the colors except the lilac and the royal blue behaved very nicely. Those 2 colors, not so much. Lots of tangles, errant threads, problems. Took much more time than usual.<\/p>\n

I finally got it beamed last night, and today got both the heddles and reed threaded.
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Hopefully the weaving will proceed smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday & Saturday afternoons the weather was just lovely. Although the temperature wasn’t high, the breeze on my face felt more like spring than the bitter wind of winter. I took my old camera outside with me Saturday afternoon and took some pictures of the sweetness of animal tracks in the snow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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