Fireplace "scarf"
August to November

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Back in July I reported on attending a workshop on "Bateman Weaves" at the ANWG conference in Victoria. But I had not woven my own sample at the time. In August I finally wove the sample on my loom - the large one at the upper left here. All of the samples have now been serged, washed and pressed so that I can tell what the finished cloth would be like.

My sample is three repeats of the whole pattern, trying out four different pattern yarns and two "tabby" yarns. Each repeat of the pattern is also a slightly different treadling. There was no time for this much sampling during the workshop.

(10:08:2017)

When I finished sampling I still had almost three yards of warp left. There was no way I was going to weave all that on a table loom - shuffling 8 levers every time I threw the shuttle. But I'm too cheap to throw that much warp away, so I took it off the table loom and moved it to the big AVL loom. Here it has been rethreaded and will soon be ready for weaving again. Notice it's now mid-October.

(16:10:2017)
Weaving underway. I chose a blue yarn the same size as the warp for the tabby weft and a fatter pattern weft that matched the warp colour.

(20:10:2017)

I planned on this being a scarf, so I did the full pattern at the end for a border and then repeated one "block" for the rest of the length. This is the side that was underneath when weaving.

(23:10:2017)
Weaving is all finished - there was enough warp to weave another 10-12 inches, but it would have been a VERY long scarf.

(05:11:2017)

Off the loom, washed and pressed. Showing both sides. I discovered, that as I suspected while weaving, the fabric was much too firm to wear as a scarf.

(08:11:2017)
But it was a perfect fit to be a runner for the fireplace mantle. Now I just have to decide what to do with the four heirloom doilies that it replaced!

(08:11:2017)
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