Spinning, weaving, knitting, travel, and whatever…
It’s a rainy day here, so a perfect day to get busy at the loom. This is a Shadow Weave scarf in 16/2 cotton at 24 ends per inch. Now that the scarf is done, I have a bit over a meter of warp to play with to see what other patterns/motifs I can get from this warp.
This year I again took on the challenge of participating in the International Scarf Exchange. The exchange is run by a different weaving guild each year, and this year the task was taken on by several guilds in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales. Each participant sends in 150 grams of fibre. You receive someone else’s fibre and you make them a scarf (or shawl, socks etc.). I received three shades of naturally coloured corriedale fibre that I spun up into laceweight yarn.
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