Wavy Scarf Finished

Yesterday turned into an unexpected crafty Sunday. We had a garage sale on Saturday, and the next day I was too exhaused to do much more than weave. Which was just as well, because I needed to clear the small loom so I can start a project for the Ashford Knitters Loomies challenge on Saturday.

The Wavy Scarf, woven on the Ashford Knitters Loom using sock yarn scraps and the 12.5dpi heddle, and the ‘clasped weft’ technique.

I like these colours together so much I’m going to knit some scrappy socks with them next.

I’ve made good progress with the Peri Peri floor rug, having fixed the disasterous unwinding of the warp. By weighting the loose warp ends with paper clips, I was able to unweave all my work, retie the warp at the front, then start weaving again.

I’m about two thirds through now.

There has been knitting, but no matter how much I throw myself at each of the three wips none of them are getting to a photo-worthy stage.

Last week I sold off most of my spinning stuff to the local s’n’b girls via Ravelry. Even the wheel. Harvey deserves to be used, and he will be going to a talented new spinner.

The only things that didn’t find new homes were my turkish spindle and half a brown fleece that came with the wheel. The fleece had become compressed and I didn’t feel I could even inflict it on anyone for free.

So between weaving yesterday, I washed it, dried it in the sun, combed a bit of it and tried spinning some.

Ironic, isn’t it? Me spinning in order to get rid of spinning stuff. Well, the fleece isn’t all that great. I suspect most of the good bits of it had already been spun into the skeins that came with it. The rest is knotty and when I comb it about half ends up in the bin.

I might see if I can get a skein out of it, but the combing is really a bit too tortuous and I should probably just throw it out.

3 thoughts on “Wavy Scarf Finished

  1. Great scarf!

    Re the brown fleece – life’s too short to spend time spinning a bad fleece. Put it on the garden as mulch, or tease it out a bit and put it in the compost bin, and spin something nicer.

  2. Yesterday as my daughter and I spent the day watching movies wrapped in Mexican Sarapes, she asks me “why are these fringy things here?” I told her they were warp threads… go check out Knitting and Chocolate on my blog… now she knows.

  3. bron – I like that motto! Along with the one they taught us at the guild: ‘there’s no such thing as free fleece’.

    jomamma – awesome!

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