I've woven several scarves with sock yarn. I slightly miscalculated with the latest one. I thought I had enough yarn with one skein (a pink to orange variegated) for the warp. Unfortunately, I didn't. So back to the drawing board. I decided to use some of the second skein (an orangy solid) - intended for weft - as an accent stripe and find something else for weft. I found a hank of different sock yarn in my stash - an orange variegated - and used that for weft. This way I could have a skinny scarf instead of an overly skinny scarf.
The yarn was sett at 10 epi, with 7 inches in the reed and wove it as plain weave. Everything seemed to be going well until I notice the yarn in the accent stripe had a different tension and I wove. It seemed to be slightly tighter as I went along. I persevered and ooched it along but was concerned that it wouldn't look right after I took it off the loom.
Fortunately once off the loom and washed, the scarf looked fine.
The yarn was sett at 10 epi, with 7 inches in the reed and wove it as plain weave. Everything seemed to be going well until I notice the yarn in the accent stripe had a different tension and I wove. It seemed to be slightly tighter as I went along. I persevered and ooched it along but was concerned that it wouldn't look right after I took it off the loom.
Fortunately once off the loom and washed, the scarf looked fine.
2 comments:
I love the color combination! Sock yarn is fun to weave with as there are so many great choices to work with.
I was really inspired by a member of my weaving group to try using sock yarn. I love the fact that variegated warp and weft create really nice patterns, even with plain weave.
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