{"id":7241,"date":"2016-02-27T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2016-02-27T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:24:00","slug":"do-what-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/02\/do-what-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Do what works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

All blacks are not created equal. Sometimes it’s the dye, sometimes it’s the base fiber, sometimes it’s…I don’t know what. I’m not sure how well it shows in the photo above, but I was finishing CT’s wrap, woven with custom dyed black cotton\/hemp blend, and started TS’s wrap, woven with Maurice Brassard’s black cotton. In real life, the MB yarn is brighter and crisper than the the cotton\/hemp yarn. In some fabrics I’ve purchased, the black seems to have a green base, and in others a red base. Is that true or just my perception? Beats me.<\/p>\n

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

I think I mentioned that I’m considering working on my Certificate of Excellence (COE) with the Handweaver’s Guild of America<\/a>. One of the exercises is to create a color wheel from yarn. I bought a styrofoam disk, found the center, and bored it out so I could wrap it with the yarn. As usual, the colors in the photo aren’t exactly the same as they are in real life. And the colors in real life aren’t perfect…I did the best I could. I used MB cotton except for the blue-violet section; there was nothing even close for that color. In the cottons, the worst ones are the red-orange and the yellow-orange; both have too much brown in them. I will explain that in my submission, if I go that far. <\/p>\n

\"website,<\/a><\/p>\n

As a micro-business owner, there is an unending list of things to do. If the weaving were all that there was, I could get a lot more products made, but of course, the point is to sell them. And that requires everything from applying for and doing shows to marketing both locally and on the web. After beating my head against the wall several times with different approaches, I finally realized that I was making the rebuilding of my website harder than it needed to be. The reality is that I do very few sales directly from my website; its primary purpose is to keep me out there, a way for people to find me and to see examples of my work. Once I acknowledged that, it was easy to make the decision to use the same basis for my website as my blog — WordPress — and the same underlying theme. That way I’d have brand consistency, as well as software that was regularly updated and mobile friendly. I still have to build a few pages (Scarves and Other), and get more products on my Handwovens for the Home page, but I’ve made great progress and am satisfied with what I’ve done. Click on the links in the menu bar above and check it out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

All blacks are not created equal. Sometimes it’s the dye, sometimes it’s the base fiber, sometimes it’s…I don’t know what. I’m not sure how well it shows in the photo above, but I was finishing CT’s wrap, woven with custom dyed black cotton\/hemp blend, and started TS’s wrap, woven with Maurice Brassard’s black cotton. […]<\/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":[588,530,412,587],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-coe","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handweavers-guild-of-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","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=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}