{"id":79,"date":"2012-09-09T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-09-09T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:16:52","slug":"art-yarn-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/archives\/79","title":{"rendered":"Art Yarn Scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do with those skeins of \u201cArt Yarn\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

After all those workshops and articles, you end up with a collection of small skeins of scrumptious handspun yarn carefully stored away, looking for a project.\"Batt<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s superfine merino and silk, a single batt from the carder spun with coils or bobbles or boucle, into maybe a 25 metres skein, too nice to do anything with. I\u2019ve sometimes been disappointed with these when knitted up, but they aren\u2019t going to weave on the loom. The lumps won\u2019t go through the reed if they\u2019re wound as a warp, and the effect won\u2019t be what I want if I use them as weft, and I only have 25 metres!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s one solution (the technique is still under development). I mounted a couple of bars top and bottom of my warping mill about\u00a0 6ft. apart, and wound on a single skein.\u00a0 To give some stability to the finished scarf, I filled in between the fancy yarn with some toning plain handspun merino.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Warp<\/a>I\u2019m looking for an open weave, which shows off the yarn but has enough stability to hold together,\u00a0 so every few inches, I twined a few rows in the toning plain yarn.\u00a0 Doing this by hand means that I can work round the coils.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Washed<\/a>When the whole length has been stabilised with areas of twined weft, the scarf comes off the loom. Even at this stage it holds its shape well, and after washing by hand, with a small amount of fulling, the toning plain merino binds the scarf together nicely, leaving the bobbles pinned in place.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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