{"id":9616,"date":"2019-07-07T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2019-07-07T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:49:08","slug":"a-few-more-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/07\/a-few-more-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"A few more pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only have a few more days before my first show, so I’m finishing my last few items. I wove them on a warp I hand painted.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing…I obviously can’t reliably predict how the color will look from wet to dry yarn. My inspiration was Design Seeds sugared tones.<\/p>\n

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

Nice summery pastels, right? HAH! Here’s what I ended up with. <\/p>\n

\"2<\/a><\/p>\n

We can all agree – Not. Even. Close. <\/p>\n

So, how would I proceed? Well, if I wanted to tone it all down, I’d use a white weft. That’s what I did for the first scarf. <\/p>\n

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

Much closer to the intent. And I like the random switching of the treadling pattern.<\/p>\n

However, since I’d dyed some weft yarn to coordinate, I wanted to use it. I’m calling this one sugar & grapes.<\/p>\n

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

Then, because I was clearly barely sufficient with the number of my cowls, I wove the last two into short-ish cowls instead of one fringed scarf. First I used a gold weft. Also reminiscent of the original intent.<\/p>\n

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

Finally I used a grayed-blue yarn, giving the cowl a denim-like appearance.<\/p>\n

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

On to the many off-loom and\/or administrative tasks that need to be done before the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I only have a few more days before my first show, so I’m finishing my last few items. I wove them on a warp I hand painted.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing…I obviously can’t reliably predict how the color will look from wet to dry yarn. My inspiration was Design Seeds sugared tones.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Nice summery pastels, […]<\/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":[412,227,528,556],"class_list":["post-9616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon","tag-tencel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616","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=9616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}