Yarn: Elsebeth Lavold’s Hempathy (warp and weft)
Source: My Secret Pal in 2006!
Loom: Ashford Table Loom
Weave structure: Huck lace
Sett: 10 dpi

I’ve woven so many big things on this loom that it’s always a pleasure and surprise to whip through a scarf. My selvedges are a bit uneven but not from pulling in. More the opposite – probably because I’m used to stretchy yarn and allowing for a lot of drawing in with wide projects.

I have quite a backlog of posts waiting to be published. The successive heatwaves and a broken air conditioner are to blame. I’m stuck in the tv room on hot days, so I craft. Which would be great if I wasn’t itching to write and worrying about deadlines. I’m tempted to bring the laptop down, but past experience tells me that I’d stuff my back up so badly I wouldn’t be able to do anything when the weather cooled again.

So I have the table loom set up on a folding table. Weaving is great for thinking. I chew over story ideas. Since finishing the scarf I’ve warped up the loom again, this time with a very different project – a doubleweave blanket using the full width of the loom woven with bulky wool yarn. It’s going to be reduce the size of the yarn stash substantially.