Malabrigo Purple-Green Variegated Tweed Scarf

Completed: January 2015
Dimensions: 8" wide by 65" long (with 4" fringe on each end)

The completed scarf,
all right-side up

Continuing the rigid-heddle-tweed scarf cavalcade, I made this scarf following the model of the navy variegated tweed scarf I made in late 2014.

I bought the yarn in a very nice yarn shop in Montpelier, VT called The Knitting Studio (which truly might be "Vermont's friendliest yarn shop.") The warp is one skein of Malabrigo worsted in color #239 (Saphire [sic] Magenta) and the weft is Cascade 220 worsted wool in color #2403 (Chocolate).

The Malabrigo is 100% merino wool and a relatively bulky gauge for weaving, so it turned out to be a little bit stiff and heavy for a scarf, but the colors are really beautiful. Again, my pictures don't do it justice; the green and magenta highlights in the warp look like jewels in the sunlight.

Wrong side on left,
right side on right

I also like the contrast between the weave design
and the color: the tweed is almost a mechanical, digital pattern, but the variegation in the yarn is organic and flowing.

Tweed Detail