{"id":9547,"date":"2019-05-07T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9547"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:44:21","slug":"starting-may-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/05\/starting-may-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting May Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s May 7th and I have 6 scarves woven, wet finished, and complete! First up, I started with some hand painted 20\/2 silk. I dyed this yarn in late April, using a photo I found online from Blue Brick Dyeworks<\/a>, as inspiration. They called it Prairie Storm, which works for me.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the yarn I ended up with from that inspiration image.<\/p>\n

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I chose a weave structure I’ve used many times and really like, and wove the first scarf with a 20\/2 gold weft. Looks like that storm at dawn.<\/p>\n

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Then I used 2 strands of a textured green & white silk singles I’ve had for a long time. I also changed the treadling, turning the pattern into leaves. So different! The colors are more spring-like, and the texture adds a strong element. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a close up so you can see both weave structure and texture.<\/p>\n

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For the last scarf I wanted a strong color, so used 2 strands of 60\/2 chocolate silk. Now that prairie storm is really threatening.<\/p>\n

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I went back to the treadling of the gold scarf, which you can’t really see there, but you can in this close up.<\/p>\n

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Then, sticking with my must-use-stash mantra, I pulled out a rayon seed yarn, something I’ve never used before. Sett at only 15 ends per inch, I had to remove my go-to 12-dent reed and go up to the attic to get my 6-dent to accommodate this ‘lumpy’ yarn. I wasn’t at all sure how I’d like it. Turns out I love it! I used a different supplemental weft for each of the 3 scarves.<\/p>\n

First is a wide ribbon with a gold metallic center. This one, like the other 2, has a regular old 8\/2 rayon weft.<\/p>\n

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You can’t really appreciate that ribbon or the texture at that distance, so here’s a close up.<\/p>\n

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That wide ribbon didn’t look at all good on the loom, and I wasn’t at all sure how the whole thing would wet finish, so I cut it off and wet finished scarf number 1 before proceeding. Decided I didn’t want to use such a wide supplement, so re-threaded the reed for the next 2 scarves.<\/p>\n

This one is uses a soy silk flat ribbon-like yarn in purples and pinks.<\/p>\n

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And the last one has a hand painted rayon yarn in greens and blues.<\/p>\n

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The only downside to these scarves is that there was no way I could twist that fringe, nor did I think they would make a nice hem. So I tried a few different simple knotting techniques, but neither is as neat a look as I prefer.<\/p>\n

Today I got the next scarf warp on the loom. This one is dominated by this interested rayon boucle yarn that has metallic interest. Looking forward to seeing this one weave.<\/p>\n

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It’s May 7th and I have 6 scarves woven, wet finished, and complete! First up, I started with some hand painted 20\/2 silk. I dyed this yarn in late April, using a photo I found online from Blue Brick Dyeworks, as inspiration. They called it Prairie Storm, which works for me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Here’s the yarn […]<\/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":[412,227,528,381],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547","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=9547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}