{"id":7751,"date":"2016-08-11T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2017-02-18T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:19:09","slug":"auditioning-watery-wefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/08\/auditioning-watery-wefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditioning watery wefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7752\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions.jpg\" alt=\"trying out various wefts\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions.jpg 450w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/watery-silk-auditions-400x271.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The watery hand painted silk is on the loom, and I&#8217;m trying out various wefts. The warp is 30\/2 silk, with roughly 7,440 yards per pound (ypp). As a general rule I like my weft threads to be similarly sized to the warp. I don&#8217;t have much (any?) colored 30\/2 silk, so I tried a number of options.<\/p>\n<p>From the bottom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A rough tussah silk singles yarn in pale green with lots of nubblies, at 7,425 ypp .\u00a0 You probably can&#8217;t see anything but the nubs.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had this yarn for almost 4 years now and have yet to find the right place for this yarn&#8230;this isn&#8217;t it.<\/li>\n<li>Next up is a silk frise in navy.\u00a0 7,425 ypp, but again, not the right place for it.<\/li>\n<li>3rd trial is a silk-linen blend, in medium blue, but only 2,400 ypp.\u00a0 The color is ok, but I don&#8217;t like the size and the linen in it.<\/li>\n<li>4th is\u00a0 30\/2 silk, at 4,900 ypp, in an interesting olive-y celery-ish green.\u00a0 I like it.<\/li>\n<li>5th is\u00a0 30\/2 silk in a silvery-blue.\u00a0 A beautiful yarn, but too pale, I think.<\/li>\n<li>6th is 30\/2 silk in darker blue.\u00a0 This might be nice.\u00a0 Or it might be too dark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that none of those wefts is packed\/beat correctly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to do that when there&#8217;s nothing solid to weave against.\u00a0 And I will fix the oddness on the left selvedge before I start weaving.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to stop auditioning here and weave the first scarf with the green.\u00a0 Once I see a bunch of it I&#8217;ll have a better idea how to silvery-blue and the darker blue might look, and if I need to try out other options.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re off!<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a night owl, be sure to check out the sky tonight &#8211; the peak of the Perseids meteor shower.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 110px;\">WSave<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 110px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 36px; left: 110px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The watery hand painted silk is on the loom, and I&#8217;m trying out various wefts. The warp is 30\/2 silk, with roughly 7,440 yards per pound (ypp). As a general rule I like my weft threads to be similarly sized to the warp. I don&#8217;t have much (any?) colored 30\/2 silk, so I tried [&#8230;]<\/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":[412,227,381],"class_list":["post-7751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751","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=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}