Wednesday, May 23, 2007

A fuzzy scarf and a dead computer...

My poor laptop was on the fritz for quite a while there - we finally figured out it was the keyboard. All sticky and ooky from toddler fingers and Little Girl's (black cat) habit of sitting on it in the winter because it's warm.

Wonderful hubby Carlos ordered a new keyboard for me and replaced it. Hooray for nerdly husbands. Should we take another gander at his nerd score??

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LOL! (Not that I should laugh too loud... see my score if you want.)

In the meantime, I finished the first scarf that I'm making with some yummy pink yarn from YarnChef at etsy. That same shadow-weave pattern with the pseudo-circles, I keep using it!

Anyway, I combined the pink merino with chocolate colored bamboo and fulled it a bit unintentionally when I finished it - but I like how it came out.



My only complaint is that it's hard to see the lovely variegation in the pink yarn - I'm currently weaving another scarf in Ms&Os that will show it a bit more, I think...

Although I'm also thinking I'm going to back up quite a bit and start the second scarf over - I don't have enough of the pink yarn left to use as all of the warp and all of the weft, but I do have enough for the warp plus some weft. So, I wove about five inches using the pink as the weft and then switched to a white Zephyr:


The idea is to then duplicate that pink portion at the other end of the scarf. It's ok, but I'm actually thinking of backing up and making pink and white stripes at the ends with white in the middle - less jarring, but I'd still get to use the pink yarn in the weft too. Off to unweave...

3 comments:

Pamala Rose said...

Love the shadow weave.

What about starting with a thick pink stripe alternating with white and the pink stripes progressively getting thinner until they fade away and only white remains? Just a thought for future reference. I am sure what ever you come up with will be beautiful.

Alpaca Granny said...

Wow, I thought when you cut something off a loom, it is done. I admire you, Kristen.

skiingweaver said...

Hi there Maple! Yup, you actually just about always have to wash fabric after you take it off the loom - often it's kind of stiff right off the loom, depending on how you wove it, of course, and it's really quite neat how it's changes (and shrinks!) with washing. Especially bamboo, it gets incredibly soft and drapey... Rayon chenille, too.