Do you like my new model? He's not quite a mannequin, but he makes a good prop for scarves. Last summer, Gary and I were visiting friends and left their house by way of the alley and found a mountain of trash from neighbors cleaning out their garage. The owners of the house owned a department store that had been a fixture in town for decades. They sold the real estate and closed the business and had lots of leftovers from the business, including 6 styrofoam heads used to display cowboy hats. Other scores included rodeo posters from the 80's, old Christmas decorations that were made in Japan (pre-Chinese), and a big roll of store gift wrapping paper.
So back to the scarves, this winter I bought a number of sweaters at the Red Lodge Senior Center Thrift Shop. One of the sweaters was a red chenille women's sweater which had flecks of blue, yellow and purple. I thought that the yarn from this would make a great weft in a winter scarf. The warp yarn was frogged from a cotton sweater of Gary's. It is a heavy 4 ply cotton with virtually no twist. What's better than free yarn? The scarves are woven in an undulating twill, draft #204 from A Weaver's Handbook of 8 Shaft Patterns.
Date Finished February, 2014
Loom Baby Wolf
Weave Structure Undulating Twill
Reed 8 epi
Warp Fiber Cotton
Count Unknown
Color Red
Mfr
Source Frogged
Warp Width in Reed 8 in
Ends 64
Length 6 yd warp for 2 scarves
Length 6 yd warp for 2 scarves
Weft Fiber Rayon chenille
Count unknown
Color red
Mfr
Source frogged
Size 6: x 72
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