{"id":253,"date":"2015-02-11T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-02-13T06:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T06:21:37","slug":"weaving-again-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Weaving again at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blackandwhite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-254\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blackandwhite-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"blackandwhite\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blackandwhite-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blackandwhite-332x231.jpg 332w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blackandwhite.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It has taken me weeks to finally complete the preparation for this project.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure why it turned into a marathon effort, I am just pleased that I am, at last, able to sit down and weave.<\/p>\n<p>As I was finishing off preparing the harakeke I decided that I wanted to make my second weaving stand a little more stable\u00a0before I used it again.<\/p>\n<p>This added yet\u00a0another little project to my &#8216;to do&#8217; list.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/rack.jpg\" alt=\"rack\" width=\"153\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nPreviously I had been using a\u00a0garment rack\u00a0where I had replaced the top rail with a narrow length of wood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cork.jpg\" alt=\"cork\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\" \/>I had nailed a couple of wine corks into the under side and they slid nicely into the uprights . \u00a0Along the top I had a row of small nails to hook my weaving over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-267\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stand-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"stand\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stand-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stand-332x299.jpg 332w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stand.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now my second weaving frame looks much better.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, it doesn&#8217;t look very\u00a0different really. However it is much more stable. \u00a020cm long pieces of doweling have been glued and screwed to the underside of the top bar and they fit neatly into the uprights. \u00a0I can also adjust the height of the top bar depending on whether I am sitting on a chair or the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Today saw me\u00a0sitting in my weaving space with the door open enjoying every moment of a beautiful day, weaving and listening to The Coast.<\/p>\n<p>I am really pleased with how it is looking and excited to be working away\u00a0as I think about how I am going to finish the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hieke5row3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hieke5row3-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"hieke5row3\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hieke5row3-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hieke5row3-332x253.jpg 332w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hieke5row3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me weeks to finally complete the preparation for this project. I am not sure why it turned into a marathon effort, I am just pleased that I am, at last, able to sit down and weave. As I was finishing off preparing the harakeke I decided that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}