{"id":8813,"date":"2018-03-16T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2018-03-16T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:44:37","slug":"i-am-not-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2018\/03\/i-am-not-old\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not old"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I saw that posted on Facebook and just love it – the photo and the poem. <\/p>\n

On the weaving front, I’ve finished 4 pieces for March from my Happy warp<\/a>. First I wove a flat shawl in what I call ‘huck-ish’ – weaving just half of a huck pattern. This is an example of necessity causing a design element that I like a lot. I started weaving with magenta Tencel, believing I had 2 tubes of it. I was about 8″ from the second end when I ran out on the first tube and went to get the other. <\/p>\n

Uh oh. It wasn’t magenta. It was bordeaux. They looked the same in the darkness of the shelves, but not once they were out in the daylight. <\/p>\n

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

After consideration I unwove several inches so that I could do some weft striping. I added three stripes – coral and pink – separated by thin stripes of the magenta, and finished the shawl with the end of the magenta yarn. Whew!<\/p>\n

I liked the way that coral looked so well that I decided I’d use it for weft for the next piece. The coral is Bambu 7. which is substantially thicker than the 8\/2 cotton of the weft. It’s also very loosely spun. So I chose to stick with the ‘huck-ish’ treadling to minimize floats. As planned, this piece is a mobius. Here it is on Dolly so you can see how it sits. <\/p>\n

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

So easy to wear. And the bamboo gives it such a wonderful hand.<\/p>\n

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

I chose an azure Tencel for the third piece, also a mobius. For this one I did a full huck treadling. I also like this one a lot.<\/p>\n

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

It was clear I had enough warp left to weave a cowl. I picked a navy Bambu 7, and since the piece would be short I opted to do the full huck treadling again. This is far and away my least favorite.<\/p>\n

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

Amazing how different they look with the different colored wefts, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

There’s 4. I’m counting this next one as 5 for the month, even though it’s sort of cheating. I actually finished this piece in September<\/a>, but it was never right. I didn’t know how to do the mobius at that time, and sewed it end-to-end. It was just a mess. So once I knew how to do the mobius I took it apart and fixed it. It’s a bit shorter than my typical, but it’s totally fine.<\/p>\n

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

So. With actual garments, simple as they may be, I needed a cloth label. I’d looked at several designs online and planned to order some. <\/p>\n

Then the lightbulb went off in my brain. Wait! I had cloth labels that I’d designed for my baby wraps. I’d ordered something like 300 of them, so I had roughly 250 left. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

They had info that I didn’t need or want on the clothing, so I had to get rid of that. A serger would have done the perfect job, but my machine with a narrow and tight zigzag stitch worked, and I could sew a string of them, one right after the other.<\/p>\n

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

The color is correct in the photo above, not in the one below.<\/p>\n

On the left is the full label, created for my baby wraps. I use them for my towels – at least most of them. Some of my towels have some bamboo in them.<\/p>\n

\"3<\/a><\/p>\n

In the center are labels I can use for things like the 100% cotton mobius – I don’t want them machine washed & dried.<\/p>\n

On the left I can use for my other mobius and the center-seam shawls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I saw that posted on Facebook and just love it – the photo and the poem. <\/p>\n

On the weaving front, I’ve finished 4 pieces for March from my Happy warp. First I wove a flat shawl in what I call ‘huck-ish’ – weaving just half of a huck pattern. This is an example […]<\/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":[214,530,325,556],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-cotton","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","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=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}