I know, you’re wondering what happened to scarves numbers 2 and 3. I haven’t gotten around to photographing them. I brought this one into work this morning and one of my coworkers was kind enough to model how well it went with her brown jacket and another one of my coworkers was kind enough to use her iPhone to take the photo. So this one got to be shown first.

This is a variegated, 100% merino wool fingering weight yarn from ValuTree’s Etsy store (in soybean). I used the 10 dpi reed for this one, 60 ends, for a scarf about 5" wide by 53" long (plus fringe). I got the whole scarf out of one 100g ball, with some left over. The scarf is beautifully soft and has great drape. When I did the finishing wash the colors didn’t run at all (unlike the Brown Sheep yarn). I totally recommend this yarn.

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.

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.

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.