{"id":7670,"date":"2016-07-07T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2017-02-18T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:19:59","slug":"dyed-scarves-cotton-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/07\/dyed-scarves-cotton-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyed scarves, cotton & silk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time gets away from me. I thought I’d show you the finished ombre-dyed scarves on the 2nd or 3rd, and here it is the 7th. No matter; it’s not like you were hanging by a thread (pun intended) waiting.<\/p>\n

So even after ‘curing’ on the heating pad overnight, both the blue and the red scarf took LOTS of rinsing for the water to come clean. Online research tells me that RIT and similar dyes are not as colorfast as the more serious dyes that I use in the classes. Hope they wear well. Here’s the blue one.
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I’m happy with it. The colors are fine, the ombre worked, and the undulating twill is stable. (I’ll have to remember this draft for future undulations.)<\/p>\n

And the red scarf.<\/p>\n

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I’m not as happy with this one for two reasons. First there’s not as much difference between the lightest part and the darkest part as I’d like. Guess even my quick first dip was too long. Second – totally my fault and I should have known better. When I re-threaded for the huck lace, I again sett the threads at 10 EPI, same as for the undulating twill. As I started weaving I had to beat hard to get the look I wanted. I should have <\/em> unwoven and rethreaded the reed at 9 or even 8 EPI, and thought about it, but I didn’t feel like it. So the lace is really only textural, not lace-like. That’d be okay, but scarf is much stiffer than I’d like as a result of too-close threads. Sigh. Why didn’t I listen to myself?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, at the June show I sold 2 of the 3 handpainted silk in the gold\/orange\/red colorway. I had another warp in a similar colorway and wanted to weave it to bring to my show this weekend, if I could. (Yes, Virginia, I am<\/em> obsessive-compulsive.) <\/p>\n

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So I beamed the warp and threaded for twill blocks. I wove the first scarf with a burgundy silk-cashmere blend. <\/p>\n

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I wasn’t as happy with the threading as I might have been, and it made getting good selvedges difficult, so I rethreaded. I liked this threading much better, and the weaving moved along well. I did the first scarf, which is by far my favorite so you’ll see it last, and then struggled to find a weft I liked for the last. I ended up with a sort of smoky-slatey blue. (Color isn’t as bright as it looks in the photo.) It reminds me of a sunset with storm clouds moving in.<\/p>\n

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This last scarf – I just LOVE<\/em><\/strong> it! I am rarely called to name my woven pieces, but this one will get a name – summer sorbet. Woven with a medium orange weft, it brings out all of the hand painted colors beautifully. Wish I’d had enough of it to do more.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be really<\/em> surprised if this scarf doesn’t sell this weekend. Now I’m off to pick up the rental van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time gets away from me. I thought I’d show you the finished ombre-dyed scarves on the 2nd or 3rd, and here it is the 7th. No matter; it’s not like you were hanging by a thread (pun intended) waiting.<\/p>\n

So even after ‘curing’ on the heating pad overnight, both the blue and the red scarf […]<\/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":[358,530,412,227,381],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cashmere","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","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=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}