Saturday, April 18, 2009

Purple scarf

I have promised a friend last December to make her a scarf and she is still waiting!
She chose 5 colours from the Venne cotton yarns herself. I ordered the yarns and they have been sitting in a basket waiting patiently to be warped for some time now. I was not sure if I was to make a double weave scarf or not. But I have finely decided to make a kind of pleated scarf as it is a fine yarn and I do not want to spend a long time weaving this scarf as she has been waiting so long already!

So here is my plan.
I found the idea for the scarf in this book and made my own interpretation as I'm using the same thickness yarn and not a thick&thin yarn. For the weft I chose a woollen yarn in one of the warp colours. (in about the same thickness as the warp yarn)
The warp is now made and ready to be put on the loom. A nice weekend job to get the loom ready for weaving. Although the weather keeps being nice and sunny in our part of Holland so I have been out in the garden during the daytime today and hopefully again tomorrow and the loom might have to wait until evening time :-)

3 comments:

  1. Mmmm, I love the colours. I think they will look fabulous in pleats too, good idea.

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  2. Margreet, this looks lovely! Like Cally, I love the colors. I'm curious about the pleated weaving and think it will look great with that draft.

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  3. Leigh, unfortunately the pleating does not work with my yarns. It should work with the 1/3 and 3/1 twill weaving next to one and other but I should have used the ticker woollen warp yarn together with a thinner weft yarn as was described in the book.........
    Good learning point.

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