This was a bit of an experiment.

One that worked out, I think.

What’s so experimental about this scarf? Well, a while back I bought one of these:

It cranks out i-cord.

For all that cranking out i-cord is fun (well, at first), what the heck do you do with it? Well, I decided to give weaving a try. I had yarn left on the knitters loom after making the magic ball scarf so I wound one of the balls of i-cord onto a shuttle and had a go. The fabric it made was thick and cushy, though not all that soft thanks to the yarn I’d chosen – some seasilk sock yarn from socks I’d frogged. But it only made 20cm of fabric and I only had two balls of it, so if I was going to make a scarf I’d have to crank out a lot more i-cord.

I’d chosen the seasilk to try out the i-cord maker with because the knitting machine didn’t like it. Looking in the sock yarn stash I found some Ms. Gusset sock yarn in a darker purple and some plain black Bendigo sock yarn. Both yarns are softer than the seasilk.

Six balls would make enough i-cord to weave around 120-150 cm of fabric, which was enough for a scarf. So I got cranking. And then I got weaving.

It’s thick and heavy – definitely a scarf to save for the coldest winter days. (I know, it’s hard to imagine that when we’re in the middle of the hottest part of the year.) I wove the seasilk at the ends, where it doesn’t get much contact with the skin. The Bendigo sock yarn is in the middle. It really plumped up with washing.