Monday 27 April 2020

Hand-spun and hand-woven woollen scarves

Have you ever tried to hand-spin wool?  It is a very time consuming task and you never want to throw away any of your hard work.  Collecting all my bits and pieces from projects long time ago, I have been able to hand weave two warm wearing scarves.   The variation in thickness of the hand-spun yarns provide an interesting feature in both scarves.
The first scarf is in a mid-grey and charcoal grey on a Corriedale fine brown yarn from Bilby Yarns.  Notice the scalloped edges due to the different shrinkage in the two hand-spun yarns.  Although two plain colours this scarf will be very warm in the winter, despite being only 103g  and measuring 1770mm x 200mm.
The second scarf is probably more interesting due to it being made from eight different coloured hand-spun yarns beside the brown warp.  A challenging exercise in eking out all the colours to be spread throughout the scarf.  I was only left with a small amount of the "green" yarn.  A quiet looking scarf, weighing 114g and being 1800mm x 215mm, it will still do the job of keeping you warm in the winter.
So, two more scarves for the homeless, or available to buy now at $50, or more, each and I will donate the money instead to the homeless.









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