… is what this flu feels like. I’ve had it for three weeks now, and I wasn’t all that well for weeks before then. (Yes, I know the doc said it was a sinus infection, but it feels like a flu, has all the symptoms of a flu, and I suspect she did just so I wouldn’t get into a panic about swine flu.)

Neverending must be what these scarf blog posts are like, and I apologise for the lack of variety. There will be a knitting/crochet post soon, I promise. I’ve already taken the photos.

Here’s my solution to the World Most Boring Poo Brown Scarf problem:

I tried a few weave structures, but none looked good with a thin warp and thick weft. It occurred to me that the brown was rather orange, the opposite to which was blue, and then I saw the basket of denim strips cut from old jeans for rag rugs. So I wove in stripes of the softest of the denims. It was just enough to break the monotony, both visually and in the weaving of it.

For the next scarf I grabbed some of the leftovers Caroline gave me. A light, textured yarn that put me in mind of the Drapey Scarf I made last year. Using the same yarn for warp and weft, I beat lightly for a loosely woven fabric:

And I love the result.

The idea of loosely woven drapey fabric led to the next scarf. I had some leftover boucle alpaca from a hat I knit and felt years ago, and I fancied weaving up a scarf to match. It’s not exciting to look at, but it feels nice. I’m calling it the Curly Alpaca Scarf:

I’d put on a double scarf length warp so I could weave up the second ball of Bendigo Neon:

This time I wove bits of blue handspun in at random intervals to make it interesting:

I’ve begun washing, blocking and labelling the scarves ready to send. The labels have a name, fibre content and washing instructions. But there are several more scarves I want to weave. I’m not sure if I should send off a package now, then another later, or wait and send it all at once.

With the way I keep warping up another scarf the moment the last comes off the loom, the former might be better. There might be a long wait if I’m not going to send any until I’m ‘finished’ weaving!