An even dozen

I didn’t manage to finish those polka dot towels in May, but I did complete 6 more scarves, for a total of 12. Those 3 scarves with the gold-wrapped rayon boucle took a long time to finish, what with tying an overhand knot on each of those fancy threads and then dipping each into a bit of FrayCheck. But since the FrayCheck was effective in my sample, I continued.

Two of the scarves have one selvedge with sienna and white stripes of various widths. I wasn’t at all sure of that brown, so for that last I pulled out all of the brown threads and moved the white closer to the fancy yarn. I think I like that one best.

I think you can actually see the gold in the yarn in this close up of the finished fabric.

Then, after looking at them for literally years, I finally decided to weave a 4-color echo scarf. Not having done it before, I appropriately chose tencel as opposed to the silk I had initially intended. I used four colors of 8/2 tencel – baby pink, bright blue, bright green, and red-violet. I chose to pick a threading and treadling from Robyn Spady’s May 2018 issue of Heddlecraft. She called it aurora borealis, which works for me. For the first scarf I used 20/2 mercerized cotton in dark purple.

(Do you like the fact that Dolly came outside for today’s photo shoot?)

Although the recommendation is to use a dark weft in a size substantially smaller than the warp, I ignored both of those recommendations for the second scarf, using a smokey blue 8/2 rayon. The breeze lifted the long end of the scarf here so you can see the design a bit better than when it was flat. Personally, I prefer the lighter color weft.

For the last scarf I played at my computer for a bit, changing the tie up and treadling. I again picked an 8/2 tencel yarn, in black this time, and I think it looks like an oil slick. I don’t know if my customers will like that name, though. 😉

I may do more 4-color echo again, but not immediately. The treadling was complex enough that I couldn’t listen to audio books or even music while I was weaving. 🙁

I have a silk warp on the loom now. No pix at this point.