{"id":9717,"date":"2019-09-23T13:53:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:53:28","slug":"finished-changed-and-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2019\/09\/finished-changed-and-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished, changed, and started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after my last post I finished the two mobius wraps. Here’s the one with the purple weft.<\/p>\n

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

I was surprised that I preferred the one with the black weft.<\/p>\n

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

Then I quickly converted two rayon chenille shawls, which hadn’t attracted lots of attention at my shows, into mobis. I wove these shawls 12-18 months ago, so it was time to do the conversion. Here’s I’ve Got The Blues.<\/p>\n

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

And then I did Caribbean.<\/p>\n

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

You can see that I didn’t spend much time getting the wraps to lay correctly on Dolly. I have to get outside at the right time to have any shade in my yard and bright sun is way too bright. Then I have to deal with the the uneven-ness of my lawn and the breeze\/wind, so I just snapped rather quickly. Since I’m not putting any of these up for sale on the web, it’s all okay with me.<\/p>\n

I packaged up these two rayon chenille wraps, the purple Brilliant Gemtones, an open front cardigan, four cowls, and a scarf and mailed them off to the Copper Shop<\/a> on the Roycroft Campus. The Campus attracts a lot of visitors between now and the end of the year and my work has sold reasonably well there. Plus my inventory there was low and I won’t have any other solo shows till next summer, so this made lots of sense. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I know that towels sell well at the Weavers’ Guild Holiday Sale<\/a>, so last month I hand painted some cotton in preparation. I started with some nondescript pinky-taupey yarn that’s been hanging around unused for a few years, and was happy with the way it turned out. Although there are several colors, they’re all somehow subdued, almost earthy, and I like them.<\/p>\n

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

My plan was to hand paint in approximately 6″ sections of color so that each towel would have one length each color. We’ll see how well that works out.<\/p>\n

I decided on a braided twill. I didn’t have any natural or white cotton in 8\/2, so I used what I had on hand – 5\/2. I sett the 8\/2 hand painted cotton at 24 EPI and the natural 5\/2 cotton at 16 EPI. It’s working out okay. Here’s the first towel on the loom, showing the progression of the colors.<\/p>\n

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

I’m now on towel #5, each with a different weft color, and so far the dyeing is working out pretty well. Here’s a close up of the weave structure. This one has a baby blue weft.<\/p>\n

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

Enough time spent in front of my computer for now – back to the loom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after my last post I finished the two mobius wraps. Here’s the one with the purple weft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I was surprised that I preferred the one with the black weft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Then I quickly converted two rayon chenille shawls, which hadn’t attracted lots of attention at my shows, into mobis. I wove these shawls […]<\/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":[412,325,249,556,304],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-rayon-chenille","tag-tencel","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}