{"id":780,"date":"2014-12-18T09:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2014-12-18T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T15:57:58","slug":"kitchen-skewer-as-a-continuous-strand-weaving-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Skewer as a Continuous Strand Weaving Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve struggled using a crochet hook as a continuous strand weaving tool. When you first start a project, it&#8217;s easiest to use your hands to weave, but after about twenty rows, it&#8217;s faster to use a crochet hook; however, there are times it works perfectly and there are times the yarn jumps off while pulling it through the shed or the hook itself snags the yarn and creates a mess. I&#8217;ve often thought there should be something better than a crochet hook for this type of weaving. Some weavers use a long, wooden hook that has what appears to be a deeper, sturdier looking hook, but I still thought there should be something that almost locks in the yarn but allows it to travel through the opening freely while pulling the working yarn through the shed.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought of using the humble kitchen skewer. If I could add a handle to this, it&#8217;d be a perfect tool for weaving this way. I&#8217;ve been using it without a handle, and it&#8217;s great. The yarn doesn&#8217;t snag, it only jumps out of place on occasion, and using the rounded end to weave over\/under works really well. It&#8217;ll only be the last five rows or so where the size of this becomes an issue, and then&#8230; back to the crochet hook.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kitchen Skewer as Weaving Tool\" href=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8634\/16050291445_a429fe461f_c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8634\/16050291445_a429fe461f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Skewer as Weaving Tool\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve struggled using a crochet hook as a continuous strand weaving tool. When you first start a project, it&#8217;s easiest to use your hands to weave, but after about twenty rows, it&#8217;s faster to use a crochet hook; however, there are times it works perfectly and there are times the yarn jumps off while pulling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[321,20],"tags":[323,324,14],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuous-strand-weaving","category-weaving-2","tag-continuous","tag-strand","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-cA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}