Street Market, Kiev, Ukraine, September 10, 2011

Monday, February 07, 2011

FO - Scarf Four

Finished this Red and White Houndstooth scarf today. The actual weaving was finished on Saturday. Today I braided the fringe and then unraveled the 'tails' at the end of the fringe. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to keep the fringe from tangeling or coming undone, even after knotting it.
I decided to keep a journal of sorts (yes, that is what I want to do! Me - keep track of what and how I've done stuff so I can actually look back at it in the future and hopefully it will help me not make the same mistakes, just some new ones. :-) haha!). One of the things I'll write about this pattern is that next time I want both sides to be the same color, not one side light and one side dark, as in this scarf. I like this side a lot - kind of a candy cane effect.
This is the right hand side and it's not as nice and neat as the left hand side. I'm going to have to try and figure out what I do differently on the right side. Maybe because I am right handed I use a different tension or something. Will mull that over as I start the next one.

The next scarf will be very sinple - just a white warp and a single colorway weft - a bright verigated mix of colors. I'll use two shuttles for the weft, though, because I want to break pooling, if possible, and using the two shuttles on this houndstooth scarf was very comfortable.

So, we'll see!

I like this one. And yes, I am very aware of where I made the mistake - see it all the time and especially from a side angle where the light seems to highlight it and make it look "taller" on the scarf, like a bump on a flat plain.

I am so picky sometimes! heh heh

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