{"id":345,"date":"2014-04-18T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-08-09T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T18:02:16","slug":"tartanic-scarf-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2014\/04\/18\/tartanic-scarf-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartanic Scarf (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4892-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4892-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"tartanic scarf\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pattern:<\/span>\u00a0 <em>Made it up<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\nYarns:<\/span>\u00a0 Plymouth Yarns Baby Alpaca Lace, DROPS Alpaca<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Method:\u00a0<\/span> Weaving<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Completed:<\/span>\u00a0 April 18, 2014.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Woven in plainweave on my 15&#8243; rigid heddle, 12 dent heddle.\u00a0\u00a0 Finished measurements: 10&#8243; x 70&#8243; (exclusive of fringe).\u00a0 Both yarns are alpaca &#8212; long staple.\u00a0 The colour patterning a tartan.\u00a0 I wanted this to complement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2011-ChevronScarf\/ChevronScarf.html\">the scarf I knit for him<\/a> a while back.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have quite enough of the original yarns, so I added in the blue\u00a0 (Plymouth Yarns) as a base.\u00a0 It is much finer than the DROPS, so I doubled it up in the warp and the weft.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it turned out pretty well.\u00a0 It was a little stiff when first off the loom, but after washing and pressing, it has a very nice hand.\u00a0 I think the weft packed in a little more than expected, so it&#8217;s not exactly balanced weave.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4886-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4886-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"flat draped\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4890-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4890-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"flat table\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4888-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4888-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"grill wears it\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\">Flat focus &#8212; handrail, table and kettle grill!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4891-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4891-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"close up end\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4887-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4887-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"close closeup\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\">Closeup &#8212; twisted fringe, and the core pattern.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3862-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3862-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"just off the loom\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Just off the loom &#8212; a little crinkled, as it was a little stiff before washing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4885-small.jpg\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4885-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"plan and                  reality!\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4884-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_4884-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"reality too\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Check out how well the reality matched my Fiberworks plan printout!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3469-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3469-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"warped and wound\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3471-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2014-TartanicScarf\/IMG_3471-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"just started weaving\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle;\">Early on &#8212; warped and wound, and then starting the weaving.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pattern:\u00a0 Made it up Yarns:\u00a0 Plymouth Yarns Baby Alpaca Lace, DROPS Alpaca Method:\u00a0 Weaving Completed:\u00a0 April 18, 2014. Woven in plainweave on my 15&#8243; rigid heddle, 12 dent heddle.\u00a0\u00a0 Finished measurements: 10&#8243; x 70&#8243; (exclusive of fringe).\u00a0 Both yarns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4892-thumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-5z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}