{"id":3927,"date":"2016-12-19T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:57:45","slug":"step-by-step-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/step-by-step-tapestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by Step Tapestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased with my first small loom tapestry project and got too cocky at attempting my second. Bit of beginners luck with the first I guess, the second was pulled in and crooked and while it might have a certain naivete and charm, that&#8217;s not I was looking for, so I decided to work through the workshop step by step and guess what&#8212;I&#8217;m learning a whole lot!<br \/>\nHere are my next two samples. The first is just dealing with meet and separate, a method of changing colors and it helps with my selvages&#8230; not pulled in and crooked! It was woven with yarn I had dyed with madder many years ago. The second builds on the first by concentrating on rectangles and blocks as it changes colors. This one uses Indigo dyed yarns.<br \/>\nNext is diagonals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/weaving\/madder.jpg\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"&#8220;What's the Madder?&#8221;, 2016, 3in x 3in, wool with cotton warp\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/weaving\/madder.jpg\" alt=\"20ven with Madder\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/weaving\/indigo900.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"&#8220;Square Moon&#8221;, 2016 3in x 3in, wool with cotton warp\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/weaving\/indigo900.jpg\" alt=\"Woven with Indigo\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of my plans with this little looms course is to create something with the bits of hand dyed yarns I have piled up. This is doing that, and it&#8217;s making me slow down and it&#8217;s keeping me sane as the world goes crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased with my first small loom tapestry project and got too cocky at attempting my second. Bit of beginners luck with the first I guess, the second was pulled in and crooked and while it might have a certain naivete and charm, that&#8217;s not I was looking for, so I decided to work&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/step-by-step-tapestry\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}