{"id":9130,"date":"2018-10-22T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:42:25","slug":"bookmarks-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2018\/10\/bookmarks-brilliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks & brilliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reminded just how much slower it is to use levers on a table loom than treadles on a floor loom while I wove these 22 bookmarks on my Missouri loom at the pop up shop. <\/p>\n

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I think they look rather like a fanciful turkey tail here. <\/p>\n

After I finally finished these I brought in a rayon chenille warp AND the setup to connect the treadles for this loom. SOOOO much more efficient!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile at home I finally finished the warp painted vs. skein painted pieces. It was interesting…while I was weaving them I alternately loved and hated them. That’s unusual for me. So I had to reserve judgement till I got all 3 off the loom, finished, and hung. Now I like them all. So, in the order woven and finished…<\/p>\n

This shawl has a black tencel 8\/2 weft. Although the picture has a bright side where the light is and a dark side with shadow, I feel that the colors are accurate, so didn’t try to make any ‘improvements.’<\/p>\n

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Next up, I think some of my customers wouldn’t like the brightness of the above colors, so decided to tone them down with a natural weft. I used 3 strands of 16\/2 unbleached cotton held and wound together on the bobbin.<\/p>\n

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For the last piece, I intended to sew a 30-minute jacket with it, so wanted a cotton weft. I chose a really dark 8\/2 navy unmercerized cotton. I like the interplay of the shiny tencel and the matte finish cotton. <\/p>\n

After it was all woven, washed, and dried, and I sat down to do the sewing. Oops! Don’t know what I was thinking…I need half-again as much length for that as I had planned for and woven, so it, too, turned into a mobi.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know if I prefer the light or the dark. I do know I like the concept of using both warp painted and skein painted yarns in the same piece and will do that again.<\/p>\n

I also know that I’m getting anxious about my weaving output. Between dyeing, towels, socks, onesies, and slow-woven bookmarks, I am nowhere near meeting my monthly goals. That means I either need to significantly over-produce in November and December — hard to do with the holidays — or resign myself to cutting out one of the great shows I do in the summer. The applications for both are due early in 2019, and I need to be confident I can build my stock sufficiently to be ready for both. Not sure how this will turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reminded just how much slower it is to use levers on a table loom than treadles on a floor loom while I wove these 22 bookmarks on my Missouri loom at the pop up shop. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I think they look rather like a fanciful turkey tail here. <\/p>\n

After I finally finished […]<\/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":[530,412,325,556],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9136,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}