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<\/a><\/p>\nI’d recently bought this brightly-colored yarn that’s a cotton-linen-rayon blend. It’s not my usual choice in yarns, but it came at a great price with some other colors that I do really like, and I knew I’d find use for this. <\/p>\n
I always have a bit of a challenge about what to put on my rigid heddle loom, since I tend to work with finer yarns that I sett at 16-18 ends per inch, and the rigid heddle is 12 ends per inch. The confetti yarn was a bit fatter than my usual, so I figured I’d give it a shot.<\/p>\n
I used a cranberry rayon boucle yarn for the first scarf. Although the post has apparently been taken down, I had found a blog post online for a half twill pattern woven on a rigid heddle loom, and decided to try that new pattern on this yarn. So for the second scarf I definitely wanted to use a different weft. I tried a few things, all of which were too bright for my tastes. I finally settled on a very dark forest green pearl cotton. I also decided that I’d do leno for the second demonstration. <\/p>\n I’m usually a very symmetrical weaver, and I’m trying to loosen up a bit, so I decided that I’d make the leno bands random, inserting leno whenever a viewer wanted to see how I did it. I wasn’t sure how I’d like the end result, but I’m just fine with it.<\/p>\n I was surprised at how different these two scarves look. The bright red weft versus the dark green weft makes a huge difference in how much the colors in that variegated warp show up. The cotton plain weave pattern versus rayon half twill pattern also make a sizable difference in softness and drape.<\/p>\n To show a third difference in the way the same yarn looks in different applications, here’s a handwoven napkin using the variegated yarn as weft next to the red scarf and the green scarf with that yarn as warp. I brought these three items to my Southern Tier Fiber Arts Guild<\/a> this morning and people there were surprised at how different these three pieces look. Even though I haven’t posted about it as much, I have been weaving away.<\/p>\n I had to do two demonstrations in March, and having no idea how much I’d get woven either time, I warped my rigid heddle loom for two scarves. <\/p>\n I’d recently bought this brightly-colored yarn that’s a cotton-linen-rayon blend. It’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[227,407,304],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rigid-heddle","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe half twill didn’t excite me, but it was interesting. The solid cranberry color really makes the whole scarf look red; the other colors fade into the background. The rayon weft, combined with the half twill pattern, ensures that this scarf is very soft and drapes nicely, but overall it’s not a look I’m crazy about.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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