The difference the background makes

 Take two 100g balls of the same colour of Noro Kureopatora 100% wool yarn and weave one on a mocha coloured 100% alpaca yarn from Tailored Strands and the other on a champagne coloured  alpaca yarn.  What  do you get?  Two interesting different looking scarves.  What a difference the two background colours make.  Which is your choice?  Oh, by the way, both the wool and alpaca yarns are from Australian grown fleeces.

See these nominally 1840mm x 200mm scarves weighing 155g soon at Aspects of  Kings  Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement.

Noro Kureopatora and mango alpaca hand woven scarves

 Summer is around the corner and I have just hand woven two scarves using wool and alpaca!.  Oh well, normally we would have visitors from the Northern Hemisphere visiting at Christmas who would be interested in such a product so maybe I will have to hold on to them till autumn.

A multi-coloured Noro Kureopatora 100% wool yarn on a mango coloured 100% Australian alpaca yarn gives a bright, in your face, colourful scarf matching the lovely colours we see in autumn.  A choice of two, not only in different patterns but a different pattern on both sides.  The scarves are nominally 1800mm x 195mm and weigh 143g.  See them soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement.

Pink, lavender and grey

 I heard a lady discussing fashions on Melbourne Cup day saying that lavender was the in colour for the season.  Surprise, surprise, I was weaving a lavender and grey coloured scarf at the time.  So I have  a lovely mohair and alpaca scarf ready for you.  Actually the "mohair" yarn is 77% mohair, 14% wool and 9% nylon but at least the alpaca is 100% alpaca.  And as a bonus I have a pink mohair (80 mohair, 10 acrylic, 10 nylon) and grey alpaca scarf in the same pattern although the pattern is hard to discern. 

Both scarves are lovely to feel and eye-catching whilst being 1800mm x 200mm and weighing 100g.  See them soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement.

Another mohair and alpaca handwoven scarf

 Are you in the pink, or having a blue?  Now you can have both together.  A pink coloured Hayfield luxury mohair yarn (80% mohair, 10% acrylic, 10% nylon) woven on a royal blue 100% Australian alpaca yarn from Tailored Strands.  This eyecatching scarf not only will look good but keep you warm with a lovely soft feeling.  Being 1740mm x 230mm and weighing 104g it fits all sizes!!!

See it soon at

Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement.

Mohair and alpaca handwoven scarves

 Whilst "Op Shopping" in Wyalkatchem during a recent wildflower trip in the Central Wheatbelt I came across some bags of colourful mohair yarns.  They became my souvenir of my holiday!

Now I have two identical scarves from using  the lavender and grey Shepherd Ezotik yarn (77% mohair, 14% wool, 9% nylon) as the weft on a warp of lavender coloured 100% Australian alpaca from Tailored Strands.  They are fluffy, 1790mm x 200mm, and yet lightweight (96g) scarves.  Lovely to see and lovely to feel.

If they appeal see them soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle.

Blue and brown, makes you frown

A bit of variety this time as I have two scarves to show you.

 Blue, or maybe tourquoise, but what a lovely colour.  I think it is a fine silk thread with loops.  No pattern is needed as the texture and colour of the yarn are the features of the scarf.  A lightweight (67g) and long (1930mm x 215mm)  scarf, the colour "sold" it to the first person who saw it.  Sorry it has gone!

Whilst wildflower chasing in the Central Wheatbelt we found ourselves in an Op Shop in Wyalkatchem.  Now I have a scarf featuring a lovely brown with a golden fleck coloured 100% wool yarn from Paton Totem with a mango coloured alpaca strip.  This thick woolly scarf will keep you warm on those chilly winter days.  If interested in this 1680mm x 190mm scarf weighing 174g see it soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement. 

Noro Kureopatora handwoven scarf

 A striking multicolourful scarf has arisen using Noro Kureopatora 100% wool yarn with a mocha coloured 100% alpaca yarn from Tailored Strands.  The dark brown alpaca acts as a great background to the multicolourful strips so characteristic with Noro yarns.  A gorgeous scarf for these chilly spring days.  And for the record it is 1830mm x 185mm and weighs 148g.

A unique scarf which you will be able to see soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle depending upon stock movement.

Left-over yarns

What do you do when a friend gives you a bag containing bundles of yarns?  Bits and pieces of 13 different fibres?  Well, you sort them into colours that blend together and sufficient quantity for a 2.7m warp.  Then arrange the colours, and width and frequency of stripes, for the warp so as to use up all the available yarns.  Finally choose an appropriate coloured thin fibre to use as the weft.  And away you go, in this case in plain, or tabby, weave.

The result is five interesting funky scarves!  Actually not bad for a lot of left over yarns.  And now my friend has five colourful scarves instead of a bag of forgotten yarns.

Hand-dyed merino hand-woven with alpaca into scarve

 Do you like the Great Southern?  On a visit to Albany recently I purchased three 100g skeins of hand-dyed merino wool from a stall at the Boat Shed Markets on a Sunday morning.  These have been used as the warp on three hand-woven scarves and with 100% Australian alpaca yarns from Tailored Strands as the weft.  Three different  patterns in three different colours but three lovely looking and warm feeling scarves.  Each scarf is nominally 1570mm x 220mm and weighing 150g.

See them soon at Aspects of Kings Park or The Artisan Store Fremantle, depending upon stock movement.