Cut warp ends tied on in overhand knots

Jane Patrick's spaced out fulled scarf was popular enough to be featured in a gallery in Spin-Off at some stage within the past year, and while I contributed a scarf to the gallery, I was never happy with it. So I decided that it was high time I wove one up that would actually get worn. Most importantly I wanted it to be long and wide enough to actually offer some protection against the elements. I'm a double wrapper. If a scarf isn't long enough to wrap around my neck twice, it generally collects dust.
 

The finished product

Recently I purchased some Foxfibre colored organic cotton from A Loom with a View in Newburyport. This is naturally colored cotton has been bred by Sally Fox. Since we were in the midst of enduring what seemed like an eternity of rainy days, I decided that a scarf wrap thing-y would be just the thing to make me feel cozy both in the studio and on the street.
 
I decided to use the 75/25 brown/green shade for my warp and the 50/50 green/white shade for my weft. This is a 10/2 cotton, and I opted for a Bronson spot weave (lots of information on these weaves can be found on (Handweaving.net and also in Anne Dixon's The Handweaver's Pattern Directory) that would enable the green/white weft floats to pop out on one side. I did have to shift some of my heddles from shafts 7 and 8 to shaft 1 to accommodate the threading. My sett for this project was 30 ends per inch, threading two ends per dent in a 15 dent reed.

Windowpane Woven Scarf

My latest free weaving project for Schacht Spindle Co. is live. I think I neglected to post my previous project as well. Ah well. Click here for my thermal scarf project and click here to learn about weaving a blanket out of smaller panels. Off to get some holiday weaving done!

Limited Edition Billy Jader Shelves from Ikea

Ikea is pretty close to the top in my list of "most dangerous places for weavers". All of those storage solutions under one roof. Ahhh.... 
 
Kevin and I took an impromptu trip to our local Ikea a couple of weekends ago to get some super long curtains for our massive windows. Somehow, the car was packed to the gills by the time we left. The next thing I knew we were rearranging our entire living space around a new chair. It's a nice chair. Of course I didn't leave without some new shelves for my studio. Things were getting a bit out of control, and I was in danger of being lost beneath the fiber-y rubble. Not to mention the only available floor space seemed to be occupied by my trash bin which managed to get itself kicked over at least once a day.
 
Well, I was completely smitten by the limited-edition Billy Jader bookcases covered from tip to toe in snippets from Billy Shakespeare himself. Had to take them home.
 
Ahh...for organizahhhhtion.