{"id":59,"date":"2013-03-20T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-10-27T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:43:18","slug":"tightening-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Tightening Things Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
I owe Lynn a reply on her post (please don’t think I’m ignoring you! \u00a0Quite the opposite, frankly) but since this week is much less busy, I’ve also been able to make some more progress on sampling for the vest fabric. \u00a0This structure continues to intrigue me and, in finishing this last piece, I tried to think of ways that I could still use the full medallion that we all seem to like so much. \u00a0However, step one remains getting a fabric that is both pleasing visually and also, in my mind, will stand up to being both sewn and worn.<\/div>\n
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After cutting off the last round of samples, I made the easiest of changes – resleying from 32 epi (4 ends per dent in an 8 dent reed) to 36 epi (3 ends per dent in a 12 dent reed) because the first round was far too open. \u00a0That went quite quickly, but I didn’t have a chance to sit down and weave it off until these past two mornings. \u00a0I also stuck with all wool this time rather than adding in the silk as I learned enough last time that this was purely about structure. \u00a0Hemstitched at both ends and washed:<\/div>\n
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This version of the fabric, while not wholly opaque, is much<\/i>\u00a0crisper. \u00a0A small amount of light remains when switching from the plain weave to float sections, but otherwise, it’s nearly solid. \u00a0I was easily able to beat to square so that made me hopeful that if I was happy with this fabric, I could make yardage without too much difficulty.<\/p>\n

First pass of colors was back to the dark blue and light brown. \u00a0Here it is against the light brown weft:<\/p>\n

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While that looks good, I liked the higher-contrast blue\/light pink combination from the previous fabric, so I wove off a section like that as well. \u00a0Here it is against the darker brown warp.<\/p>\n

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And this is where I stopped. \u00a0I’ve more warp on the loom, so there’s one more round of sampling to come, but I also noticed that I made a sleying error near the left edge. \u00a0I put six ends in one dent, rather than the planned three. \u00a0Since this was a sample, I didn’t worry about it at all (there was enough trouble-free fabric elsewhere) but decided that I would cut off and finish this piece so that I could not only fix the error, but also make any more decisions about how I wanted to handle the end of the warp.<\/p>\n

That said, here’s my thinking for what’s left:<\/p>\n

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  1. Weave off a chunk with a combination of wool and silk. \u00a0Try different color wools to see if there are any that are truly appealing.<\/li>\n
  2. Weave off a chunk in monotone wool and overdye. \u00a0I remembered how much the dark Merino roving loves to be overdyed so I’m going to cut some sections and do them in red, teal and blue. \u00a0My hope is that a monochromatic, rich color scheme might make those big medallions bearable.<\/li>\n
  3. If any warp remains after doing those two, I’m going to pull out the linen\/silk blend and weave off some with that. \u00a0I’ve both a light blue and a natural, and if I have enough, I’ll try and overdye a patch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I should have enough to do 8″ of each of the first two experiments and then see what’s left for the linen\/silk. \u00a0Regardless, the weaving part can get done tomorrow with no issues – and perhaps I’ll even have time to do the dyeing. \u00a0Then I can have the full set of samples in place so that I can calculate\/thread some fabric. \u00a0I’m going to see this structure through to a finished vest for certain; until it’s cut up and sewn, I simply won’t know the answer. \u00a0And if it doesn’t work, that’s just another answer, right?<\/div>\n
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    Answer for Lynn in a separate post. \u00a0Now it’s time for lunch and then off to the shop.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I owe Lynn a reply on her post (please don’t think I’m ignoring you! \u00a0Quite the opposite, frankly) but since this week is much less busy, I’ve also been able to make some more progress on sampling for the vest … 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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}