{"id":120,"date":"2011-03-21T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-03-21T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:45:00","slug":"finally-off-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Finally Off the Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/workingyarn\/5547713562\/\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c0147e35faf6c970b\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0147e35faf6c970b-800wi\" title=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>It started as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weavezine.com\/content\/pile-loop-wash-cloths\" target=\"_self\">spa wash cloths<\/a>, and ended up as a rag and a table runner. The warp was a nice cotton\/hemp blend called Hempathy, but the weft, at first, was&#0160;plain hemp 100% hemp yarn. Sorry, but after just one cloth, I was ready to call it quits.&#0160;It has&#0160;a rustic look, which is fine, but it was dusty, and it shed bits and pieces everywhere. It&#39;s best left for a rope, or a handle, or something other than a wash cloth. Plus, it smells when it&#39;s wet, too, so don&#39;t use it&#0160;for something meant to be doused in water on a regular basis. I made one loop pile cloth, then moved onto a second, which I quickly turned into a little rag, and the final two feet of warp sat on my loom for <em>two months<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to use the hemp blend for the weft, and a little pick-up stick pattern to create a small table runner. The pattern was 2 up, 2 down, and the weaving was Up + Pickup Stick, Down, Up, Down. It worked out nicely, with the warp floats creating a stripe. Hemp is nice in a blend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; It started as spa wash cloths, and ended up as a rag and a table runner. The warp was a nice cotton\/hemp blend called Hempathy, but the weft, at first, was&#0160;plain hemp 100% hemp yarn. Sorry, but after just one cloth, I was ready to call it quits.&#0160;It has&#0160;a rustic look, which is fine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,33,25,20],"tags":[105,17,43,14],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-object","category-glimakra-emilia","category-rigid-heddle-loom","category-weaving-2","tag-glimakra-emilia-2","tag-loom","tag-rigid-heddle","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}