scarves

  • quiet day

    Scarves on trees and melted cats. Just an ordinary day, then.

  • huck lace draft

    The creative redhead who blogs at Handcrafted with Altitude asks whether I will share the draft I used for the crinkly merino/silk scarf in huck lace. The answer is yes, certainly. I planned a threading on eight shafts — and threaded what I planned — but after sampling I ended up using a very simple…

  • the perfect weft

    I have become completely addicted to this 30/2 Nm silk. The colour is called “gunmetal” and it goes with everything. I used it in the previous crinkly scarf and then again in this — another — crinkly scarf. The first was mainly blue, the second mainly red, but both are enhanced by the gunmetal grey….

  • nicely crinkly

    Here is the merino-silk combination straight off the loom and looking rather stunned, as they often do. I treated it the same way as the sample. First I washed it ever so gently in the sink, using Ecover’s “Delicate” as I usually do. Then I rinsed it and squeezed out the excess water. And then…

  • of cashmere and consolation

    Hey, more snow! We had quite a good weekend, with sufficient sunshine to cheer us up and even bring about a bit of thawing. This morning, however, it was heavily overcast and snowing again. Grumpy bit follows – skip to ** to miss grump. The cooncil are allegedly busy clearing roads, but they haven’t done…

  • Serious scarves

    One of four silk scarves in Goethe’s “serious” colours, inspired by a workshop with the late James Koehler