Plum Handy Plaid

When I started the hobby known as weaving, I purchased a few weave kits from the Yarn Barn.  


After a few lessons and some practice pieces, I decided I was "experienced" enough to tackle one of these projects.  The first kit is the Plum Handy Plaid shawl.  When you purchased a kit from the Yarn Barn, they let you choose your own colors of yarn in the kit. 


I purchased these colors:  


Scottish Hillside

Catamaran Seas

Cliff Rock

Orchid

Sandstone Cave

I was able to measure the 3 yard warp on my trusty LeClerc warping board and ended up with 3 parts.

Off to the loom...I purchased angel wings from Purrington Looms to assist in warping my loom by myself.  They are really great and I was able to get almost enough tension with just the lease sticks.  It helped that the yarn was 100% wool and pretty fuzzy.

It took me about 3 hours from starting the warping on the back beam and warping back to front.  Not bad for my second time through with this loom.  From the back.

From the front and the front beam tie on.

I'm really excited to start weaving this pattern.  The instructions state to weave in the same configuration as the warp.  I hope there aren't any threading mistakes.

Avatar Woven Scarf

As part of the project for the Avatar: The Last Airbender Fellowship Pack and Uncle Iroh Tea Pack discussed here and here, I decided to spin up all the batts and weave a scarf.


I decided to use a basic twill called a broken 2/2 twill (mini-herringbone).  I recently learned how to use lease sticks to keep the cross of the warp for easy of threading but it was frustrating to have the sticks flopping around.


I saw an ad for angel wings from Purrington Looms and ordered a set for my Ashford table loom as well as my LeClerc floor loom.

I decided weave starting with Aang and progress through the rest of the characters.  I wove 8 strands of weft of each color and just randomly changed the order of the yarn.

Here is the loom with waste yarn, followed by Aang, Katara, and Appa.

The weaving pattern was 1-2-4-3 and I repeated it twice before selecting another weft color.  I just randomly changed colors as I went along and ended up with the black at the end. 

Here is the completed scarf.

I have enough yarn to warp another scarf and I think I will do a plaid type pattern.