On Saturday the beau and I checked out a cattery, and having noticed that it wasn’t too far from the Bushfire Relief Centre that wanted the winter woollies, I packed eleven of the charity scarves in a bag in case we had time to detour there.

As it turned out, we did have time. It wasn’t hard to find the place, and the volunteers were really happy to receive them. I was very glad I delivered them in person. After my experience with the possum pouches, I want to be sure that someone really does want what I make, and it actually gets to them. Now I can weave without worrying!

Last week I added a few more scarves to the pile:

A varigated pink, blue and green warp (from Live 2 Knit) with a white weft. Some leno twists at the beginning and end, and basketweave thrown in here and there to break up the plain weaving. This ones is for a girly girl.

Similar to the Faux Noro Stripe Scarf but with Vintage Hues alternating with a non-varigated yarn (dark aqua Patons Fireside). I warped up for two scarves thinking I’d get one scarf each from two balls of the Vintage Hues, but it turns out I can get two out of one ball. Very pleased with the result.

The latest scarf is an interesting challenge. I had some leftover sock yarn and laceweight in the same or very similar colourway. The laceweight was too fragile to use as warp, unfortunately. So I figured I’d double it up and add another yarn to it to use as weft. And use the sock yarn as warp.

When I started weaving two things became obvious. It was going to look fabulous – a bit like a rag rug. But the laceweight and ‘filler’ yarn, wound onto the shuttle together, had completely different levels of stretch, so pretty soon there were loops of excess laceweight getting in the way. It was fiddly and made it extra hard to get the selvedges even.

The solution was to unwind the shuttle, separating the lacewight and the filler, then put both onto separate shuttles. At the same time I took the opportunity to add two more threads of laceweight to the first two. This means two passes of a shuttle for each shot, but the result is better and there is no fiddling.