Today is nice and sunny so I was finally able to get a picture of the scarf after the second dye job.  I love this dark blue color and in person there’s little touches of purple, very subtle.  I’m more happy with this than anything else I’ve dyed, it came out exactly how I wanted.  All that cotton had to be taken out today, so I sat with a pair of scissors and a darning needle (to untie the knots, which didn’t work very good) and cut and pulled out all the threads then I twisted the fringe.

After a couple hours of cutting and twisting I had a bunched up mess of scarf so I heated up the steam iron and lightly ironed out the pleats.  I wanted to keep some of the texture but open it up enough that you can see the colors between.  In these pictures you can see where some of the dye bled into the pleats, especially the red dye, but I really like how it looks.  I probably could have pulled the strings a little harder and that would have kept the dye from bleeding so bad, I think it adds a little more depth.

And here’s a close up, you can really see the pleats here and the color is better, too.  I just can’t describe how much I love this scarf.  I had thought about making a few to sell but I’m not sure it’s worth the effort, between the weaving, string pulling and tying (and cutting my finger), to the dyeing and finishing work, I just don’t know if I could make enough money to make it worth the time and effort.  I meant to keep track of exactly how much time it took to make this one and I forgot, I’m so bad at tracking things like that.  If I had to take a guess I’d say it was around six or eight hours of actual work, most of that was weaving and tying the strings then the finishing, the dyeing didn’t take long and I could dye more than one at a time. 

Anyway, here are the details:

• Yarn:  Most of one skein of Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool in Natural, dyed with Jacquard acid dyes in Sapphire & Sky Blue then over dyed with Vermillion and Jet Black
• Loom:  32” Ashford Rigid Heddle 7.5dpi
• Finished size:  I didn’t measure it, but it’s around six inches wide by about seventy inches long, slightly pleated and the length is excluding fringe

Tomorrow we’ll look at my WiPs, my coat, the Herringbone sweater and my new weaving project.  I’m off to eat some home made mini Tollhouse cookies, yummy.