This scarf was a special challenge for me: My male cousin asked me if I would weave him a scarf, and as the architect he is came up with very exact specifications after looking at my previous projects on Flickr: Just like the cashmere scarf( with close and open setts), black, 25 by 200 cm and then with an artistic touch of lime green, which he would leave up to "the artist" to place! He also especially liked the photo of the scarf before wash, which I took to mean that he wanted the individual threads to show, so I wove it at a very open sett. Two of the the photos show it before wash, only the close-up shows is after washing and fulling out to the real soft and nice cashmere quality. The cashmere was from colourmart, the lime green from BC Garn in Denmark.Being very fond of black and white and grey and normally very timid with loud colours, I had great difficulty getting that lime green into it, and now I am waiting and hoping that this is what he wants :-)
Lime green is one of my favorite colors! I like the placement of the green, just enough.
Sharon Carey
I am glad you think so!
This is absolutely stunning!
This is gorgeous Ellen - I think it has 'architect' written all over it!! I love the open and close sett and your placement of the green accent - perfect! It is a wonderful example of how special plain weave can be. How did you decide to finish the ends?
Thank you so much woolgirl. You give me confidence that he'll like it when he gets it :-)
We had some mailing back and forth before I started on this, and at first he wanted it "preferably without the tassles!" After some debate he then turned round and wanted long twisted fringes.
When I came to the lime green parts I twisted a normal fringes with the black cashmere first, then held on to that and twisted the lime green yarn (two strands) round that. A bit fiddly, but they came out very well in the end, - after several attempts!
Thanks Marsha :-)
That finish sounds great! I'm putting cashmere on my list of fibers to try! I'm winding a warp right now for a 45" alpaca blanket/throw as a gift for my oldest daughter. Bamboo scarves after that, then on to cashmere! Thanks so much for this inspiration! ;)
Alpaca is one of my favourites, too. And bamboo is another very nice yarn, which I have just been using lately and liked. Sounds like you are set for some happy weaving :-) Look forward to seeing it all appear on the project's page :-) You are going to love cashmere, - and do look in on colourmart, you may find some great bargains there.
I just looked in on Colourmart - WOW, they sure do have a lot of yarn!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for telling me about them - adding them to my list of favorites! ;)
