{"id":8127,"date":"2017-01-27T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2017-01-27T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:54:17","slug":"2500-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2017\/01\/2500-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"2,500 picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every endeavor has its own language. In weaving, a pick has 3 components:<\/p>\n

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  1. Step on a treadle to open a shed (moving threads up and down – presumes a floor loom; table looms are a bit different);<\/li>\n
  2. Throw the shuttle, sending the yarn through that shed ;<\/li>\n
  3. Pull the beater bar forward, packing in the yarn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    According to my calculations, I wove about 2,500 picks yesterday. Whew! I could only do that because I did no volunteer work for the Weaving Center, no babysitting, no posting on blog or Facebook, no grocery buying, no cooking.<\/p>\n

    After I got the two shawls woven I had a bit of extra warp and decided to weave what I could for length and see if I could make a cowl. I got about 22″ woven, and this is how close I came to the end of the warp.<\/p>\n

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    This morning I cut the woven fabric off the loom. Then there are several steps to be done. First is a visual inspection of both sides of the fabric, looking for any treadling errors or skipped threads. I only found a few, thank goodness, because I hate needle weaving. Here’s what it looks like when I have to do it.<\/p>\n

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    Then I have to pull out my sewing machine and sew a line of stitching close to the edge of each piece to stabilize the threads before cutting them apart.<\/p>\n

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    Although I machine hem my towels, I hand hem all of my wearables. First pin, then hem.<\/p>\n

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    After that it’s into the washer & dryer. Then, with most fabric (but not rayon chenille), a hard press finishes the weaving process.<\/p>\n

    I’ll try to get a few pix of the finished shawls in natural light tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

    Every endeavor has its own language. In weaving, a pick has 3 components:<\/p>\n

    Step on a treadle to open a shed (moving threads up and down – presumes a floor loom; table looms are a bit different); Throw the shuttle, sending the yarn through that shed ; Pull the beater bar forward, packing in […]<\/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":[129,325,249],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}