I feel like all I’ve been knitting lately are scarves. Lacey scarves, woven scarves, aran scarves, just lots of scarves. Here’s another to add to my scarf pile.
Details:
- Pattern: Scarf with French trellis border from Weldon’s 1890 and bramble leaf center by Jane Sowerby from Victorian Lace Today
- Yarn: KnitPicks Shadow in Midnight Heather, leftover from Irtfa’a (which I still haven’t blocked, BTW)
- Needles: US4/3.5mm
- Modifications: I used lace weight yarn and smaller needles. The original suggests both fingering and DK weight yarns.
- See it on Ravelry.
And I know that I kept putting off taking pictures of the first two scarves I wove, but here they are. The first I made was the black and burgundy in the back of this picture. The warp yarn (black) is Lion Brand Wool-Ease worsted and the weft is Wool-Ease Chunky that I had leftover from Juliet. This came out really wide, about eight inches, but it’s only about five feet long with fringe. I made it following the directions that came with my loom and it was great practice. The scarf in front is what I made next, the warp yarn is KnitPicks Comfy (cotton/acrylic blend, very soft and not acrylic-y at all) in a light pink and green stripe and the weft is KnitPicks Suri Dream, a fuzzy alpaca, in white. The yarn is leftover from knitting these little cupcakes for the KnitPicks catalog. This is much narrower, maybe four inches wide but still only around five feet long. My weaving on this one was more even, my selvedges look a lot better. It’s very soft and drapey.
Today I finished the shawl that I had been weaving, I just have the finishing to do, knot my fringe and cut it off the loom, I can probably finish that tonight. And I’m not knitting anything except my work project, which is fairly close to being done. I think next I would like to try weaving with my handspun. And I might be going on vacation in a few months, plus summer is on the way, and I think I want some lightweight knitted stuff to take with me.
