{"id":221,"date":"2011-07-24T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T22:21:13","slug":"adventures-in-weaving-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"adventures in weaving, part two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"kitchen towels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/5970722055\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6018\/5970722055_a243ba67cf_z.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen towels\" width=\"576\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a>This time around, I wanted to weave something more people could enjoy. So, I loaded the loom with an extra-long warp of soft cotton, and after weaving it all, I cut it into pieces and hemmed each by hand. And that&#8217;s how you make kitchen towels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"kitchen towel close up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/5970719681\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6126\/5970719681_d6e3608890_z.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen towel close up\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m more than pleased with how these turned out. They&#8217;re thick and fluffy, and way more exciting than I ever imagined towels could be. I played around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/5970717671\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">a few different colorways<\/a>, but still kept it pretty basic. The more I weave, the more I think I need to own my own loom. Someday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These will soon be slipped into envelopes and sent off to my favorite people. I think my next weaving endeavor will be a head start on some Christmas presents. Shh&#8211; don&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time around, I wanted to weave something more people could enjoy. So, I loaded the loom with an extra-long warp of soft cotton, and after weaving it all, I cut it into pieces and hemmed each by hand. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}