Yesterday I decided to finish off my woven shibori scarf so I sat myself up with the loom in front of the TV and two hours and a couple cheesy History Channel shows later, the scarf was done.  Here it is shortly after I cut it off the loom.  You can see that the front and back are the same with the little loops of crochet cotton.  I sat here last night and tied the loops at the selvedges (and cut my finger on one loop, I was pulling too hard) and then today, I dyed.

Here it is after the first trip through the dye pot, it’s actually brighter in real life.  I went with the blue, this is a mixture of Jacquard sapphire and sky blues, squirted on the scarf at random.  I like it but it’s quite a bit brighter than I wanted, in person it’s almost a primary blue color, I always forget how bright the sapphire blue is.  So I over-dyed it with about a quarter teaspoon of vermillion and an eighth teaspoon of black.  It looks so much better now, the dye took differently in spots, so it’s this mottled dark blue and the insides of the pleats have a touch of light violet and pink.  Very pretty.  I tried to get a picture of it after the second dye bath, but the clouds are heavier now and the pictures kept coming out blurry.  I’ll get some tomorrow.  I’m going to let the scarf dry tonight and then undo the ties tomorrow and we’ll see how it looks.  I have to admit that I’m a little excited by it, this is so fun.

Not only did I dye the scarf twice today but I also warped the loom again.  I saw this post on rigidheddleweaving.com about using string heddles on the rigid heddle loom, this way you can have an infinite number of heddles.  I picked out a three heddle pattern from handweaving.net, now that I look at it I think it’s the same pattern from the video on rigidheddleweaving.com, and tied up my string heddles.  I used the same method to tie my heddles as this video from WeaveZine, it seemed easier than tying each heddle individually and wove my header, but I haven’t had time to start weaving the actual pattern yet.  I’m always amazed by how many different things you can do with such a simple loom.  No pictures, it’s too dark, they wouldn’t come out right, but I’ll get some later.

I’ve also been knitting but I’ll save that for another day.