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I have been really slacking on making things lately. The only thing I’ve done this week is make this scarf. I finished the weaving today, and I’m going to felt it next time I do laundry.
The yarn here is mostly some Paintbox 100% wool I got at Heindselman’s in Provo. Lovely stuff! The warp I got from a Stitch & Bitch white elephant party last year, and it’s a wool/cotton blend. Also very lovely stuff. I don’t have much left of it.
I wove this on my frame loom which I made for weaving rugs. I’ll go more in depth sometime, but that’s not what I want to talk about now.
I wanted to make scarves, but it couldn’t really be done with normal tablet weaving. I got a great idea where I set up two tablet weaving warps parallel to each other and draw the same weft through, creating a loose weft between them for the body of the scarf. I even went so far as to try the idea:
This was done with cotton crochet thread and lofty acrylic yarn. I loosely wove some extra warp into it after finishing, just to keep things in place and prevent tangling. It looks how I wanted and expected, which is great, but I didn’t like the technique. It took longer than normal tablet weaving and it was too difficult to get a nice edge while maintaining enough looseness to keep it the same width all the way down.
Being unsatisfied with that method, I tried the frame loom, and I really like how it turned out. I’ve even figured out how I can make them longer instead of being slave to the predetermined size of the loom. This type of weaving is great because you can, at any point during or after weaving, scrunch up the weft to make it thicker and shorter, or pull it down to make it looser and longer. This scarf used 100 yards, the whole skein. I wanted it a bit thicker and a bit longer, but I didn’t have enough yarn for both, so I wove the whole skein and moved the weft around so that it filled up the whole warp. I don’t know if that makes sense, so I’ll probably have to show you sometime.
