{"id":9910,"date":"2020-02-02T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2020-02-02T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:49:03","slug":"planning-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2020\/02\/planning-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually plan ahead, mentally working on the next warp while I’m still at the loom on the last one. This planning and activity wasn’t really anything like that. I was looking 11 months out. But it wasn’t my weaving. <\/p>\n

After I’d made a bunch of Christmas presents (oh yeah, you still need to see them; next time…if I remember) I was very much in the Christmas spirit. I’d recently been to an evening meeting of the Weavers’ Guild, one where we all were quilling, something I haven’t done for 40 years or so. I got inspired to make a bunch of cards for Christmas 2020. I’m showing them here, figuring by next year the intended recipients will have forgotten about them.<\/p>\n

I started by quilling 240 little ‘light bulbs’ while I watched TV.<\/p>\n

\"240<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I ordered the card stock and envelopes I needed, and set them up on my kitchen table, gluing lengths of green cotton to the cards to represent wire.<\/p>\n

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

Still working at the table, I glued on the lights, and decided I had to make little ‘plugs’ of black. Although the plugs look sort of like little cat heads, it was the best I could do. I made 20 cards; here’s a sampling of them. <\/p>\n

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

Simultaneously to quilling those light bulbs in the evening, I was also working in the studio during the day, setting up triaxial ribbon weaving for a different kind of card. The totally traditional Christmas colors of pink and black \ud83d\ude09 uses 3\/8″ ribbon, the rest is 1\/4″ ribbon.<\/p>\n

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

After it was all woven and pinned to the bulletin board, I taped the segments off with craft tape and took it to my sewing machine to stabilize all the places where I would cut.<\/p>\n

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

In addition to ordering the cardstock and envelopes for the quilled cards, I also ordered window cards for the triaxial weaving. I have 6 of the pink and black and 3 each of the green\/white\/red and blue\/white\/red.<\/p>\n

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

So next year I can send out 32 handmade cards. Wonder who will get these versus some store-bought ones.<\/p>\n

I haven’t woven anything since mid-December, giving my thumb tendonitis a rest. I wondered why I wasn’t dyeing fibers like mad so I’d have plenty to do once I was back at weaving, but somehow I just wasn’t inspired to do so. Then the other day on Facebook I saw this posting. The dyeing was done by Blazing Shuttles<\/a>, the work of Kathrin Weber, whose work I admire.<\/p>\n

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

I loved the look of that warp and wanted to do my own version, adding substantially more purples. I wound 3 narrow bouts of 20\/2 silk and went down to the basement. Here’s what I ended up with. <\/p>\n

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

The purples are more pink than I’d had in mind, but I’m happy with the way it turned out. Now I have to decide on the weave structure, whether I’ll offset these bouts with some solids, and then what I’ll use for weft to keep the loveliness of the colors.<\/p>\n

Now, because Kathrin called her colorway Honey Pie I’ve had this earworm for days. Here you go. <\/p>\n