{"id":7585,"date":"2016-06-07T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2016-06-09T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T00:05:45","slug":"unintended-design-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/06\/unintended-design-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended design elements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finished that warp of 3 scarves shown recently on the loom.\u00a0 I used an undyed ring-spun bamboo warp and 3 colors for weft.\u00a0 Above is my favorite, an olive tencel.<\/p>\n

I had wanted to keep the scarves all bamboo, but don’t have much in my stash (and am not buying more yarns, remember?), so first tried with a bit of hand painted bamboo left over from a project.<\/p>\n

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

IMHO the variation in the weft detracts from the lace pattern.<\/p>\n

It’s unusual that I re-thread the loom in the middle of a run of three scarves, but I decided to here.\u00a0 The threading and treadling were things I had adapted from a draft in Strickler’s 8-Shaft Patterns book (#625).\u00a0 I was proud of myself for figuring out to to change the draft to a skeleton tie up, since Strickler showed it with 12 treadles and I only have 10.\u00a0 With a skeleton tie up you have to step on two (or more) treadles at once for each pick.\u00a0 Anyway, after 2 of these lace diamonds I wanted to thread and treadle for the original, which was more triangles or steps of light and dark lace.\u00a0 For this one I chose a sienna tencel weft.<\/p>\n

\"brown<\/a>This scarf has some unintended ‘design elements.’\u00a0 I saw the first when I was already half way through the weaving.\u00a0 I had left out a 6-unit treadling sequence! \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Here’s a close up.<\/p>\n

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

The red arrow shows how I’d been doing it wrong, having a maximum of 4 units of white lace showing.\u00a0 The black arrow shows how I should have been treadling, working up to 5 units of white lace showing.<\/p>\n

Once I discovered my error I thought about it for a while.\u00a0 No way was I going to unweave almost 40″, and I didn’t have enough length on the loom to simply start again.\u00a0 I decided that I didn’t think it would impact on the fabric’s stability, and since I had been entirely consistent, I’d keep weaving it ‘wrong.’<\/p>\n

The second unintended ‘design element’ was that the sienna tencel bled into the bamboo fringe a bit.\u00a0 I’m calling it an ombre effect.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Marlene asked me how I threaded the loom for my green & white scarf, so I’m providing photos of the two different threadings here. If anyone would like a wif file (for weaving software), let me know and I’ll email you directly.<\/p>\n

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\"lace<\/a>On the rodent front, this morning I poured about a pint of white vinegar down the hole, with no noticeable impact.\u00a0 Tonight I’ll do the rest of the quart.\u00a0 Next I’ll probably try buying moth balls and putting them in the hole.\u00a0 I really<\/em> don’t want to use poison, because it’s passed on to whatever prey animal(s) end up with a poisoned carcass.\u00a0 Trapping?\u00a0 Possible, but I’d sure hate to catch a neighborhood pet in a rat trap.\u00a0 Hav-A-Heart trap?\u00a0 I don’t know, but I’d have to buy\/borrow one.\u00a0 If I believed it was bunnies, chipmunks, or even squirrels I’d just look the other way.\u00a0 But I can’t bring myself to do that if it’s a rat, possum, groundhog, or skunk.\u00a0 (I highly doubt the last as there’s no ‘perfume’ around.)\u00a0 Your ideas on convincing the critter to move on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I finished that warp of 3 scarves shown recently on the loom. I used an undyed ring-spun bamboo warp and 3 colors for weft. Above is my favorite, an olive tencel.<\/p>\n

I had wanted to keep the scarves all bamboo, but don’t have much in my stash (and am not buying more yarns, remember?), […]<\/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":[214,227,99,556],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-nature","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}