The finished product

Project planning

Weaving in progress

Twisting fringe

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.

 
I am always curious to see how others tie up their treadles on a jack loom. My brain translates the treadling sequence musically, and I approach my treadles like bike pedals needing to go back and forth from my left foot the the right. I tied up the first shaft on the left, and shafts 2, 3 and 4 on the right. Since every other treadle in the sequence was shaft one, this meant that I lilted from left foot to right consistently for the duration of my weaving.
 
Here are the basic project details to make yourself 17" wide 70" long 10/2 cotton scarf wrap using the Foxfibre colored organic cotton:
 
Sett: 30 epi, warped two per dent using a 15 dent reed
Width in loom: 20"
Total ends: 500 (I had to shift some heddles to harness 1)
Total warp length: 108"  
Picks per inch: 17
Total warp needed: 1,800 yards
Total weft needed: 810 yards
 
Pre-wash dimensions: 18 1/4" x 75 3/8" + 3 3/4" twisted fringe
Post-wash dimensions: 17 1/4" x 69 3/4" + 3 1/2" twisted fringe 
 
I twisted the fringe in groups of eight threads using a 2-clip Leclerc fringe twister. Back when I was living in Boulder, I had separate conversations with my fabulous pal Stephanie and the spinning goddess Maggie Casey. Stephanie, pooh-pooh-er of the stick shuttle, insisted that a fringe twister was the way to go. Way faster. As I contemplated the silly cost of a couple of blocks of wood, some bent wire and a couple of alligator clips, the aforementioned Maggie suggested that fringe twisting by hand was a peaceful way to pass time. I liked the sound of passing time peacefully while simultaneously being productive.
 
Well, I have since changed my tune. 500 ends, times two ends of my scarfy wrap thing, dived by groups of eight threads equals 125 twisted fringe bits. Seeing as how this also equalled lots of minutes of peaceful fringe twisting that would surely drive me mad, I silenced the Luddite within, and made the plunge. Ahh....
 
If you'd like to read more about Foxfibre colored organic cotton, there is a great article by Carol Huebscher Rhoades on p. 52 of the Summer 2008 issue of Spin-Off Magazine.