Navy Variegated Tweed Scarf

Completed: 2014
Dimensions: 5 1/2" wide by 62" long (with 3" fringe at each end)

The finished scarf

I went to the Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival in 2013 and in the Fiber Stash stall I found a skein of a hand-dyed alpaca blend in variegated blues that I thought was one of the loveliest combinations of colors I had ever seen. Having forgotten to bring any cash, I had to borrow money from a friend to buy the skein.

Tweed pattern detail

I used the skein as the warp for a scarf, and used one skein of worsted-weight Malabrigo Arroyo in Prussian Blue as the weft, since it matched one of the colors in the variegated alpaca.

I made my scarf on a rigid heddle loom using two 10-dent heddles. I warped the loom for a three-shaft tweed (1-2-3 repeat), and wove it in a two-up, one-down staggered tweed pattern.

It turned out to be a lovely scarf, and the Malbrigo went perfectly with the hand-dyed yarn. Because I used the two-up, one-down tweed, one side is dominated by the Malbrigo blue and the other side is dominated by the hand-dyed yarn, but I think that makes for a nice effect when it's wound around somebody's neck. The pictures here show the warp pattern, but definitely do not do the colors justice.

The scarf in action