{"id":2753,"date":"2015-08-31T02:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2015-08-31T02:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T02:12:29","slug":"practice-makes-pretty-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2015\/08\/practice-makes-pretty-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice makes…..pretty stuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still playing with my Baby Wolf loom, and the practice is speeding my progress, if nothing else.\u00a0 The warps are going on smoother and more efficiently, so I can spend more time choosing patterns to try and seeing what happens when I add new weft, or change treadling pattern, or anything else that comes into my head.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m definitely still learning things about what I like to do, and what I think looks good, and what fibers I like to work with best.\u00a0 I haven’t formed any strong opinions yet, as I know they always change with experience.\u00a0 So far, everything is rosy – but I’m still not putting any pressure on myself.\u00a0 I’m going to keep playing!<\/p>\n

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This is a waffle weave pattern for 4 shaft loom, from Davison book, page 57. I’m using stash yarn to play with colors and texture with the pattern. There is sock yarn – doubled – on top, some sparkly worsted in the middle, and the same worsted with ribbon on treadle rows 2 and 3 on the bottom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I did actually finish a few real projects.\u00a0 I washed and hemmed the towels from Weaving Camp, and 8 placemats from the Lion Brand yarn project.<\/p>\n

\"Reverse<\/a>
Reverse twill, with Blue boucle for the weft. You can see a bit of the fabric with brown weft, on top. The change in fabric is pretty subtle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Striped<\/a>
Striped Cotlin warp, except the Blue which is an unknown boucle. Using Reverse twill pattern, which gives a zig zag impression with the stripes.\u00a0 The weft is brown on top, and yellow on the bottom.\u00a0 I’m surprised at how subtle the color change is with different weft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cotlin.<\/a>
Cotlin. The warp is striped, and I’m changing weft colors to get stripes. Also playing with treadle patterns to get texture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"On<\/a>
On the right are 8 placemats made with Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton warp and Gold Leaf weft, Sett of 8, on my Baby Wolf – 4 shafts set for Basic Twill pattern. On the right are the two towels I made at Weaving Camp. Top is pure cotton warp (24 sett!), and a cotton chenille weft. It feels amazing. On the bottom is a towel made with the same warp, but I added some boucle stripes for fun, and tried a different treadle pattern. Turned out OK!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I also finished a knitted item this week.\u00a0 A shawl for my daughter’s birthday, made with the CaterpillarGreen yarn that I am now obsessed with.\u00a0 This was my last skein, and I am already wanting more!<\/p>\n

\"Caterpillargreen<\/a>
Caterpillargreen yarn in simple triangular shawl, for #1 Daughter’s birthday coming up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’m still playing with my Baby Wolf loom, and the practice is speeding my progress, if nothing else.\u00a0 The warps are going on smoother and more efficiently, so I can spend more time choosing patterns to try and seeing what happens when I add new weft, or change treadling pattern, or anything else that comes […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[215,219],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-blog","tag-caterpillar-green","tag-lion-brand-yarn-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}