Circles and Squares

If you read HANDWOVEN you may have seen my article "Two-for-one scarves in lazy lacy doubleweave!" in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue. The article is three pages long and describes a red and a blue scarf. There is also a smaller picture of a copper/grey/white scarf. This one was done first and I like it better. Possibly because the colors are more my colors.

I like to share a few more pictures with you:

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  • 4-H double weave; separate layers at beginning and end,
  • double width in the middle.

  • Yarn: Jaggerspun Wool/Silk.
    • This idea caught on with people in a German study group called Fadenwechsel. Two members used this double weave technique to create many lightweight scarves for an exchange.
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    I like the idea of my double weave technique so much I had to try another pair of scarves. This time I used very thick wool, sett at 10 epi. The blue-blue layer is woven in plain weave, the green-white-yellow layer is 2-2-twill. Naturally the plain weave blocks get to be bigger. As a result the twill blocks are smaller and the holes are pointy.

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