In the past month or so I was participating in the Ero Swap of the Dutch Karma Swap group on Ravelry. For this swap, you would get an undyed skein of superfine merino from Bart & Francis, which you had to dye yourself, and then make a project out of it for your swap partner. This way the swappers would all get an almost free present, and Bart & Francis would get a large number of project links on Ravelry for that particular yarn. Win-win! And fun!
I already wrote a blog post about the dyeing process. I was planning on weaving a scarf for my swap partner, using both colours. I found a nice 4 shaft pattern that I wanted to try:
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I began weaving a bit of plain weave. However, when I started weaving the pattern, it didn’t look good at all. The pattern didn’t come out very clearly, so I decided to try something else. Fortunately my warp was threaded quite straightforward (1-2-3-4), so it was easy to just weave a simple twill pattern with the lift plan *1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-1, 3-4, 2-3* 1-2. This produced a zigzag pattern that looked quite nice!
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It’s interesting to see that the purple and teal affect each other. The teal looks rather green by itself, but next to the purple it is almost blue. The purple has a tiny bit of variegation in it, it sometimes tends to look more reddish, sometimes more blueish. The separate yarns look rather plain, but combined they are special.
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The pattern looks very pretty in my opinion. I like simple, strong pattern the show off the yarn or the colour combination. It didn’t take that long for me to finish this scarf, because I just wanted to continue weaving all the time! I sent it to my swap partner this week, and she is very happy with it. Despite the hot weather she has been wearing it. How’s that for a compliment?
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