However, the ends must be dealt with at some point. I don’t do this because it affects the way the square looks and I think it’s kind of a waste of time. Some people immediately weave the ends back into their work which is one way to keep them neat and tidy while you make the other pieces for your project. However, you will want to secure those ends in some way because if you pull on them the fabric of the square will “gather” or pucker. Just to let you know, the square will NOT unravel–weaving is different from knitting and crocheting. It will probably become a laceweight, just enough for a small and special project.Thanks for your comment, Coe. I’m looking forward to spinning this one it’s staple length is so short that it will be very different to spin than the longwools that I’ve been using. …filled with Pygora fiber! I’ve never spun Pygora, but it is wonderfully soft, and very warm. (It’s in your jeans, too…they’re a 2/2 twill, where the weaving yarn goes over two threads and then under two threads all the way across the fabric.)Īs it turned out, Becky wasn’t the only one getting surprised on Friday. See all those little diagonal lines? That’s the twill pattern. The fabric is quite light because the laceweight is so fine, and the twill pattern gives it a little extra texture, too. ![]() The warp is tencel and the weft is silk, so the piece has beautiful shine and drape. The laceweight weft is dominant on the front, and the warp is dominant on the back. I wove the scarf in a 3/1 twill (the weaving yarn goes over three threads, then under one), so the front and the back look a little different. Because the width doesn’t change, I was able to keep the same color repeat all the way through the scarf, giving it an interesting zigzag look. In this case, I had to be extra careful to line up the color repeats when I switched from one bobbin to the next so that the pattern didn’t shift, but that wasn’t very hard because it only took two and a half bobbins to finish the scarf. The uniform width of the piece and the alignment of the color repeats makes the color changes much more acceptable to my eye, and usually makes a beautiful fabric. I’ve found that this is consistently true for me yarns that I would normally avoid knitting with because of pooling make excellent weaving yarns. Again, the photos are a little dark because we took them at night, but I think you get the idea.Įven in weaving, the colors did pool quite a bit, but I really like how they interacted. I finished weaving the scarf on Wednesday, washed it Thursday, and gave it Friday. ![]() So I took the light warp off the loom, and put on a dark one instead. (Sorry for the flash…I was in a hurry to get the skein wound into bobbins and couldn’t wait for daylight.)Īs you know, I decided on the lighter color, thinking that it would help the colors to “pop.” Instead, it completely overwhelmed them: One was a shade or two darker than the darkest green in the yarn, and the other was a couple of shades lighter. I had two cones of green yarn that would go with the laceweight. During the break, a small paper bag was carefully slipped into my backpack. I was planning to weave it up for Christmas, but then I decided that it would make a good going-away gift, too. ![]() The colors were definitely Becky’s colors, but really, what kind of lace could you knit with that and manage to avoid pooling? And what but lace would you knit with a yarn that has 1100 yards in 3.5 ounces? Becky asked me “what would you do with this?” My immediate response was that I would weave with it. It’s Schaefer Yarn Andrea, in colorway Jane Addams. It was a handpaint, with vibrant colors and abrupt color changes. ![]() Sometime this spring, Becky and I were at a knitting guild meeting, and one of the vendors had a very pretty laceweight yarn. I’m not sure I could have held out another week!) (It’s a good thing, too…not blogging about this project was killing me. The secret weaving project has been safely delivered, so now I can show you all what I’ve been up to.
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