Loom

My husband went with me to the Fiber Festival of New England in November since my usual fiber partner couldn't make it. (Very sweet of him, he seems to tolerate yarn stores as well!) We were checking out some spinning wheels when he noticed a loom, after a bit of discussion we came home with an Ashford Rigid Heddle.  I read the book that came with it, watched a video on Ashford's website and threaded on my first warp - with a little "help" from our cat.

I decided to just do random width stripes.

I wove it tight - beginner's mistake - but the scarf still drapes nicely

Last spring I bought some amazing fiber at the Connecticut Sheep and Wool Festival, a luscious grey silk alpaca blend, a purple batt with novelty fiber combed in and brilliant jewel tone tencel!  I used the silk alpaca blend with bits of the tencel to make this simple circle shrug (Threads magazine).

Fiber

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Circle shrug