{"id":9975,"date":"2020-03-17T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:33:14","slug":"calm-cool-and-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2020\/03\/calm-cool-and-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm, cool, and collected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or maybe I’m not what the title of this post says, but at least I’m trying. And the colors I’m working with are reinforcing that.<\/p>\n

I started knitting these socks months ago. Although I pretty much always have socks on my needles, this pair took much longer than usual due to my thumb tendonitis. I did absolutely no knitting for about 2 months, and since then have dramatically reduced the amount of time I knit in an evening. Sometimes not at all, sometimes 10-15 minutes, max of about 1\/2 hour. So it took me a long time to finish these socks.<\/p>\n

\"turquoise<\/p>\n

They are YUMMY!! I bought this yarn from the Humble Bumble Fibers Co<\/a>. It is hand dyed, was a pleasure to work with, and is VERY soft and comfy. Hopefully they wear as well as the commercial yarn I usually use.<\/p>\n

In my last post<\/a> I showed you some fiber I dyed in preparation for weaving. Much progress has happened since then.<\/p>\n

Here are the skeins dried and shown together with the commercially-dyed cone of turquoise I’ll use with them.<\/p>\n

\"hand<\/p>\n

After that I wound them into the appropriate length on my warping mill. Here they are chained and ready for the loom.<\/p>\n

\"hand<\/p>\n

Looks pretty different than in the skeins, doesn’t it? And then here it is going on my back beam. Different yet again.<\/p>\n

\"beaming<\/p>\n

Although I haven’t had as much time as I’d like – or that you’d think I’d have since I’m not going anywhere – to weave, the loom is threaded and I’ve woven about 25″. I’m weaving about 4 yards of fabric to be cut and sewn into an interesting vest. There’s also enough length for a shawl.<\/p>\n

\"RD<\/p>\n

All yarn, both warp and weft, is 10\/2 cotton. Since I’m planning to cut and sew with this, I wanted to do a simple weave structure. This is just an 8-shaft straight twill. Here’s a closeup so you can see how much the structure shows up in a relatively ‘busy’ color section and a relatively calm color section. (The color is much more accurate in the picture of the whole warp.)<\/p>\n

\"closeup<\/p>\n

My external commitments (yes, they’re all virtual, but have taken many hours of my time in the past few days) should be ending in the next 36-48 hours, so I’m hoping for more time at the loom. But you know, (wo)man plans and god laughs. So time will tell.<\/p>\n

Meantime, stay home, stay creative, stay well, and WASH THOSE HANDS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or maybe I’m not what the title of this post says, but at least I’m trying. And the colors I’m working with are reinforcing that.<\/p>\n

I started knitting these socks months ago. Although I pretty much always have socks on my needles, this pair took much longer than usual due to my thumb tendonitis. I […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-hand-painted-yarn","tag-handwoven-shawl","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}