Friday, March 11, 2011

A tale of three scarves

Three difference scarves. 
Scarf #1 - RED
This scarf has two difference threads. The thread that makes up 10 inches on both ends of the scarf is a red cotton.  In the middle, making up about 40 inches, is a beautiful red and black yarn.  I believe it is called Electra, but I'm not 100% on the name.  It's soft and has a wonderful texture.  The two threads together don't make a nice combo.  I don't care for this scarf much.  It was just too expensive to get more of the nice Electra thread to make this any longer.

Scarf #2 - Blue and Red
This is made with a wonderful cotton chenille which is quite soft.  Unfortunately, it didn't turn out very soft at all.  It is extremely stiff and dense.  I was so frustrated with this thing.  I had warpped the loom to have a wonderful pattern in the scarf, but it didn't work out.  It was just extremely dense and showed zero of the pattern.  I think the warp I used was too thin for the cotton chenille weft and that was why it was so dense.
It's about 70 inches long and 8 inches wide.
Scarf #3 - Stripes
I'm sure this has to be some school's colors.
I made this scarf on my good ole Dorothy loom.  I haven't used the table loom in a while and I gave it a try again.  This scarf came out a little shorter than I would have liked.  I rad out of the blue thread.
The blue and white thread are a thin cotton thread.  The red you might recognize from scarf #2, it's that red cotton chenille.  The chenille is quite a bit thicker than the cotton and so it gives this scarf a wonderful texture.  It's quite thin, about 4 inches wide, but I love the way it looks and feels.  The pattern I set up in the warp shows up in the white and blue parts of the scarf.  They are the same kind of thread that was used for the warp.  The red, which is thicker, didn't show the pattern very well.
They were all fun to make, but I'm not producing the kind of product as I would like.  I'll keep working on that, I guess.

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