Archive for September, 2008

First Handwoven Scarf
September 16th, 2008 | Link

Scarf in variegated reds

Here’s my first scarf, woven on an Ashford Knitter’s Loom. The yarn is Brown Sheep Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn (75% wool, 25% nylon) in Blue Blood Red for the warp (which runs the length of the scarf) and Ragtime for the weft (the back-and-forth part). Ragtime is a variegated yarn, so the pattern forms itself. The scarf is about 5 1/4" wide and 70" long.

Scarf detail

It took about six hours to weave, mostly while I was watching movies or television. This is a sport-weight yarn, and I think I could have used a higher-density reed (the one I used was 7.5 dpi, which is maybe better for a DK weight?). I have a lot of the yarn left, so I’m going to experiment with that a bit.

The whole scarf took just under one ball of the warp yarn and just over one ball of the weft, which is pretty impressive—I could have gotten by with just one ball of the weft and made the scarf four or five inches shorter.

Warped
September 14th, 2008 | Link

Closeup of taut warp threads

When my brother and sister-in-law visited last month, they delivered a birthday present from my parents: an Ashford Knitter’s Loom, and enough Brown Sheep Wildfoote sock yarn for my first scarf.

Fortunately, passing a shuttle back and forth does not require the use of one’s left thumb, though tying the warp threads posed a bit of a challenge.

Inevitable
September 13th, 2008 | Link

My hugely bandaged thumb

Really, with all the sharp implements involved in bookbinding and my innate accident proneness, it was only a matter of time before I took the tip of my thumb off. (Don’t worry—it was much smaller piece than the bandage would seem to indicate.)

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