{"id":1091,"date":"2011-03-31T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T00:25:34","slug":"im-gonna-be-500-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Been quiet around here, hasn’t it? Well, I have been trying to keep from publishing until I got these off of the loom.<\/p>\n

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And they finally are off the loom.<\/p>\n

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Hallejulah!<\/p>\n

There is still a few things left to do before I am completely done with them. But they have gone through the initial cycles of washing and drying for fulling. Now, I just have to cut them apart and sew in the hems. After that, one more time through the washer and dryer.<\/p>\n

I think the part that made this project such drudgery was the ironing<\/a>. One night at knitting, I was talking to Sheila <\/a>about the rugs and did a quick calculation in my head. While it wasn’t 500 miles, I did do over 300 yards of ironing for just these two rugs. Sheila’s reply when I told here the amount? “You probably shouldn’t have done that calculation.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday, I finished up the ironing for the rugs and that night, Mr. Penney and I went to Border’s after dinner. At Border’s, I happened upon Betsy, the president of the local weaving guild<\/a>. When I told her about the rugs and the ironing that I finished up that day, she was astonished that I did all of that ironing. “I usually just twist my strips so that enough of the right side of the fabric shows.”<\/p>\n

Now, ya tell me.<\/p>\n

That will have to be something I will have to try the next time. If there is a next time….<\/p>\n

Next up, everything else that I have been working on.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2011 by G. P. Donohue for textillian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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