Mustard scarf

Handwoven scarf on an Ashford rigid heddle loom.

This was just two days of weaving – I warped it on the Wednesday and it was done on the Friday. This is absolutely crazy to me that it could be done that fast. I was shocked when I got to the end of the warp.

I am REALLY PLEASED with the end result given the time taken, despite it being a bit more shall we say “scruffy” than I had in mind. The Jamieson’s yarn was left over from my previous scarf, and I realised that I had underbought the mustard, so figured I would just combine them. Despite trying to buy yarn with the same width the two were completely different weights (sigh) which I think contributed to making the edges kinda raggedy.

This was also my first time doing twisted fringes. I’m really happy with them despite the fact that the two ends are different lengths – I’m not super bothered by that, as it only really is obvious side by side in a picture like this. But I hadn’t understood how the warp up would affect that, so now I know for next time.

(Not shown are also a bunch of lose weft ends that are just hanging off the back – oops. I thought they would become secure as a result of the washing process, but er thats not how that works. Again, I know for next time. I’m still not stoked by the recommendation from YouTube weavers that seems to be “just tuck them in” because it does increase the thickness on the overlap and its noticeable, and I’m sure there must be a better way. Whatever.)

So yeah. I learnt a bunch and I’m excited to wear this. That sounds like a good result to me!