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Cayenne Scarves

After the Poinsettias, next I wove Tammy’s Cayenne colorway. Despite several attempts at photographing them, and plenty of time spent in Photoshop adjusting the color, I can’t seem to get the colors in the photo to match real life. I have noticed that it tends to be particularly difficult to get red right. I wonder […]

Weaving Poinsettias

I can do many things, but unless we’re talking about either dandelions or daisies, I can’t weave with flowers, as the name of this post might imply.

However, Tammy’s beautiful Poinsettia colorway* is so lovely, I think you’ll forgive me when you see the handwoven scarves I made from her yarn. I couldn’t wait to […]

While I waited

I’d ordered quite a bit of yarn, some of it for orders I had, some to build my stock for the spring & summer. While I waited for it to arrive, I couldn’t sit idle! I needed to weave with some of my stash.

I decided to use up a bunch of really bright red […]

Weaving Frenzy

As planned, I’ve been weaving just as fast as I can. I’ve made 13 scarves in the last six days. Everything’s been wet finished, but nothing’s been pressed yet.

The first thing I did was tie the fringe and wet finish the log cabin scarf I wove on the rigid heddle loom at my last […]

Color Blocks Scarves

Late last month I showed the twill block scarves I wove with silk on a gray warp. They were successful, but didn’t have as much contrast as I was looking for.

So I tried the concept again, this time with a white bamboo warp and three different colors of bamboo weft.

The first one […]