Mardi is the next Not 2 Square to finish her Weaver's Poker Challenge. Here's her description of how she approached the project.
"My challenge cards were Stripes, Warp-faced, Analogous Colors, Yellow and Overshot.
I decided to make a scarf because it was a small enough
project to try out some of my ideas on.
The one card I chose to delete was Overshot.
I used a stripe generator and then edited it for the values that I thought would work in the design.
In a way, I cheated because I changed the warp-face to warp-dominant. I did not want to make a plain weave scarf because I am working on finding a fabric that drapes well. The structure I chose was a 3/1 point twill.
I used a stripe generator and then edited it for the values that I thought would work in the design.
In a way, I cheated because I changed the warp-face to warp-dominant. I did not want to make a plain weave scarf because I am working on finding a fabric that drapes well. The structure I chose was a 3/1 point twill.
The yarn is 10/2 mercerized cotton. The sett is 30 epi. The weaving length was 72
inches with a finished length of 64 inches plus fringe. The width in the reed was 8 inches with a
finished width of 7 inches.
Actually, the project satisfied the parameters
but the fabric was still stiff. If I did this again, I would change the sett to 24."
The scarf is very nice. The yellow color turned out nicely.
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