{"id":50,"date":"2013-04-11T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2013-10-27T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:43:48","slug":"nearly-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Nearly there"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to put a picture of a bucket here. \u00a0And then I thought about a washing machine. \u00a0But, neither one of those are really interesting, so I’ll save the picture for a little later and just say that my vest fabric is currently in the washer.<\/p>\n

I finished weaving it off today – it’d been 100% trouble-free until I started to get a little greedy at the back end and I snapped a warp thread when I hit it with the shuttle. \u00a0I was at the end of a medallion anyway so I listened to the Weaving Gods and just wove a 12-shot header and called it done. \u00a0Then, I cut it off the loom, zig-zagged the ends, sewed the two warp ends together to make a big tube and banged the whole thing into a bucket of hot water with a little dish soap. \u00a0My aim was to ensure that the fabric was fully wetted and the size was dissolved before fulling it – we’ll see if that makes a difference. Then I went off to go buy lining fabric, some interfacing and get a haircut.<\/p>\n

Back to pictures! \u00a0After gazing at the roll upon roll of 8mm silk, and putting my little swatch up against all of them (started at yellows, went through the blues, greens, browns, purples, so many colors!), I kept coming back to a family of greens and a family of blues. \u00a0The greens made sense (Lynn – you’re so smart!) since they’re complements to the red, and the blue really helped make things pop. \u00a0So I pulled down five or six different rolls and just kept playing about. \u00a0Finally, I decided on two colors and just bought a yard of each:<\/p>\n

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In both cases, the value is much less than the actual fabric. \u00a0I just didn’t think that a similar, or darker, value did anything for the pattern or the piece. \u00a0Given that it’s fully lined, this will only be spotted occasionally at best. \u00a0And, with the amount of black that I’d put in the overdye, really saturated, BRIGHT! colors didn’t seem to work either. \u00a0Hence these two.<\/p>\n

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A little closer on the green, and a little closer on the blue.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, as stated, everything went into the wash. \u00a0And, because I’m a dope, I didn’t weigh the fabric before putting it into the wash so I’ll have to wait until it’s dry to dye it. \u00a0That means tomorrow. \u00a0GAH!<\/p>\n

So. \u00a0Green? \u00a0Blue? \u00a0Oh, and I got dark interfacing for the fabric. \u00a0I thought white interfacing was a patently Bad Idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to put a picture of a bucket here. \u00a0And then I thought about a washing machine. \u00a0But, neither one of those are really interesting, so I’ll save the picture for a little later and just say that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}