{"id":176,"date":"2010-08-25T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-06-25T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:47:17","slug":"a-real-wool-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/2010\/08\/25\/a-real-wool-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A REAL WOOL DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a day!\u00a0 Up early to do a few jobs around home then left early to get to the Dorr Mill Store<\/a> in Guild, NH for a braided rug class with Sandy Luckury at 10 AM.\u00a0 Despite the rain, wet roads, and a quick stop at the credit union, I made it to Guild with time for a brief\u00a0 personal \u201crest stop\u201d and glance around the store before class began.\u00a0 Sandy L., class member Sandy, Camille, and I were the only braiders there today.<\/p>\n

There is so much to learn about Barbara Fisher\u2019s braided rug method.\u00a0 In a previous class two weeks ago I had learned to braid and worked two 15-inch braids with sample wool to be used for \u201cbutting\u201d practice eventually. At that time I purchased three yards of gorgeous wool–deep red, navy, and a gray herringbone–to go along with some wonderful gold that Aunt Freda had given me a few weeks ago. Sandy had instructed me to start the braid with the colors that I wanted for the center of the rug then contact her with the number of repeats per 12 inches.\u00a0 Because this wool is blanket weight there were only 7 repeats and the braids were a full inch wide rather than the regular 9 repeats and three-quarter inch braids with the standard braiding wool.<\/p>\n

The first thing Sandy L had me do was to prepare a color plan for the rug by snipping many very small pieces of the five fabrics and putting them together in sets of three which correspond with each round of the pattern.\u00a0 Rather than do a hit-or-miss rug I am doing a patterned rug that will be approximately 2 feet by 3 feet.<\/p>\n

I had planned to make stair treads for our beautiful new stairs but Bob rejected that idea.\u00a0 Probably a great blessing as it would have cost a great deal of money and even more work to make treads for each stair in the addition.\u00a0 Thank you, Bob!<\/p>\n

Next on the list of things to learn was how to figure out the amount of wool yardage to purchase for any given rug using a template Sandy had created.\u00a0 I believe I have plenty of fabric for this first rug.<\/p>\n

By the time I had filled in that chart and used the calculator for the math, it was 11:30.\u00a0 Since I planned to leave at noon, rather than stay until 1 PM, which Sandy would have allowed, Sandy L got me finishing the braid for the center round, going around both corners and then adding the extra preparing for the butting.<\/p>\n

When the center round was ready, the clock had just about run out\u00a0 of time but there was one more thing Sandy L needed me to do:\u00a0 figure out the placement of each \u201cstrand\u201d of color for each braid.\u00a0 She had a handy chart to fill out, so now, at home, I can actually get all the braids prepared before I go back.\u00a0 If I get that done, I can go on to the next part of the instruction.\u00a0 Because Megan is coming to visit with her family for the next two Wednesdays and the following week Bob and I are at the Temple, it will not be until the last Wednesday in September that I can go again.\u00a0 I sincerely hope I can get a lot of the braiding done by then, BUT….with so much cleaning needed to prepare for company (Megan\u2019s family plus Kate Shaffer and the spinning workshop in October)\u00a0 I do not know how far I will get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a day!\u00a0 Up early to do a few jobs around home then left early to get to the Dorr Mill Store in Guild, NH for a braided rug class with Sandy Luckury at 10 AM.\u00a0 Despite the rain, wet roads, and a quick stop at the credit union, I made it to Guild with … Continue reading “A REAL WOOL DAY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossett.net\/thecountrywife\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}