A while back I used up some alpaca yarn by matching it with some black old Patonyle sock yarn and weaving it up on the rigid heddle loom. I decided to make another Ruffles Scarf, this time with some of the feltable yarn (the alpaca) in the weft as well. Here it is pre-felting:

It took me a while to get around to the felting, partly because I thought it was quite attractive as it was. But I’d woven it very loosely to allow for the felting, and that wasn’t going to make for a very robust scarf. So into the front-loader it went, with a couple of pairs of jeans for company.

I’m glad I went ahead with the felting. The texture is lovely. It’s very soft, too.

I have some leftover bamboo yarn that I didn’t fancy knitting into anything, so my next project was another scarf. This one had some leno twists at either end.

The bamboo is rather slippery and I doubt any ends would stay put long, so I decided the weft had to be done with one ball – no joins. I’ve found that if I use the same yarn for both warp and weft, and the weave is fairly balanced and even, then one ball of warp usually takes up one ball of weft.

The scarf is lovely and drapey. I have enough for another scarf, and I’ll probably do another kind of decorative effect on it. As always, I don’t know what I’ll do with the scarves. But I’m learning to not worry about that. I keep those my very favourites, and the others find a home with friends or family or a charity.

I still have plenty more to post about this week: more bookbinding projects, a twill blanket off the loom, a new book, and this week’s Sketch Sunday. Some projects needed that last photograph taken, so I’ve been organising that this weekend. And I’ve had a head cold, so there’s been a lot of pottering around doing a bit of this and a bit of that (rather than work), but not a lot of blog post writing.