{"id":6730,"date":"2015-10-14T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2015-10-14T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:21:03","slug":"if-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/10\/if-at-first\/","title":{"rendered":"If at first…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…you don’t succeed, try, try again. If you’re still not succeeding, it’s time to change the plan. <\/p>\n

I wanted to do a Bertha Gray Hayes miniature overshot pattern for the chair fabric. I planned to use doubled 5\/2 cotton for the pattern weft, with the warp and the tabby weft both 8\/2 cotton. So I tried with the dark green cotton.<\/p>\n

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

Those motifs are supposed to be square. I was beating hard, but SOOOO not square. A more experienced weaver would know instantly if my sett was too close or too far apart. But the reality is I didn’t want to re-thread the heddle. Not because of the time involved so much, but more because I need the fabric to be this wide. My loom won’t accommodate wider and the my chairs couldn’t handle it narrower.<\/p>\n

So I tried with two other wefts. First a thicker and softer purple cotton, just to see how it work work. Then a thinner variegated cotton used for both pattern and tabby weft.<\/p>\n

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

Nope and nope.<\/p>\n

I tried other things, none of them successful. So it was time to change the plan. I changed to a standard 4H tie-up (1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-1), and treadled the same pattern as I’d threaded. I like the pattern. Its floats are longer than desirable for upholstery fabric, but I decided I would proceed anyway. My photos of the upper side of the fabric didn’t turn out well, but here’s the under side.<\/p>\n

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

I will likely change treadling pattern and\/or weft color for the other 3 cushions.<\/p>\n

Today I took the leap. Went to Home Depot and bought a stove and a microwave. I really kind of had to, since someone was coming to buy my electric stove this afternoon. I knew the stove wouldn’t be able to be delivered immediately, and couldn’t function for even a few days with just a toaster oven. I could eat cold food and\/or order food or go out to eat, but not being able to make tea for 3 or more days? Untenable. I made the decisions for both appliances using info with a one-month subscription to Consumer Reports. Frigidaire stove, GE microwave. <\/p>\n

The nuker is sitting on a folding table for now. I still need to make decisions about a cupboard or two in the kitchen. I did move the frig to the nook and I LOVE it there! The kitchen seems so much bigger. This is the last room I have to deal with and I have made lots of progress, so I don’t feel too bad about the fact that it’s still in transition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…you don’t succeed, try, try again. If you’re still not succeeding, it’s time to change the plan. <\/p>\n

I wanted to do a Bertha Gray Hayes miniature overshot pattern for the chair fabric. I planned to use doubled 5\/2 cotton for the pattern weft, with the warp and the tabby weft both 8\/2 cotton. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[530,574],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-moving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}