{"id":7898,"date":"2016-10-07T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:15:15","slug":"yep-i-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2016\/10\/yep-i-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, I was"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crazy, that is. I wove some more on the rayon chenille FLW warp, and decided it would not do what I wanted when it was all done, and that I could spend weeks weaving on something that wouldn’t make me happy. So I cut it off and tossed out the yarn. Paraphrasing Laura Fry,<\/a> one of my weaving gurus, “Hey, it’s only string. And your time is worth way more than that string.” It’s all out in my trash bin already.<\/p>\n

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I immediately put on another warp to get my head straight. It made me happy to put on this multi-colored towel warp. Cheryl, a really kind local artist, told me she had a bag of yarn that she’d give me. Having no idea if the yarn was ends of acrylic knitting yarn or something I might actually use, I brought her a loaf of homemade bread when I went to pick up the yarn. I was overwhelmed when I saw that it was probably 10 pounds of coned cotton yarn in various sizes and colors. A loaf of bread was insufficient and I wanted to make Cheryl a towel with it, so that’s what went on the loom.<\/p>\n

The red, blue, and yellow warp stripes were yarn I had, the rest is part of the gift. I like the apparent complexity of this 4 harness weave.<\/p>\n

I also really like the way the thick-and-thin multi-colored yarn makes even a simple tabby weave more interesting, creating irregular waves across the warp.<\/p>\n

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After these two towels I used an easy straight treadling – 1 through 4 – repeated. I liked that, too.<\/p>\n

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For the last towel I really wanted to highlight the weaving pattern of the first one, the towel that Cheryl will get, by using a darker solid color weft. I went with a medium blue. See that threading error next to the blue stripe on the left? I didn’t notice it till this towel, and wasn’t about to change it then as it doesn’t affect structure. But I wouldn’t ever submit these towels for jurying.<\/p>\n

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I’ve woven all 4 towels, hemmed and wet finished them, and will put Cheryl’s towel in the mail today. It makes me very happy.<\/p>\n

Last night I spent some time needle weaving a treadling error in one of the rayon chenille shawls I wove in August. Some missed threads. Sigh. Not only do I really dislike needle weaving, it’s SO much better to find the error before the piece is wet finished. I’ve now got the shawl back in the washer to wash & then dry again and hope<\/em> that my ‘fix’ doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. I like to have little things for people to buy in my booth. So I did some more rep weave mug rugs, this time with 8\/4 cotton rug warp. The 5 on the left are too wide; after I wove them I cut them off, removed some warp threads, and re-threaded the reed. I also rethreaded the blue & green alternating threads on the left side of the warp so that they were a mirror image of those on the right. I’m much happier with the 2 on the right. <\/p>\n

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I also finished off the warp of bookmarks I’d put on the Missouri loom for the library demo. All but 1 are woven with bits of hand painted yarn I have left over from projects; people like them best.<\/p>\n

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