This loomed scarf was inspired by a blog post from Sunnysideupmama.com. posted on Pinterest. She and her family made a similiar scarf in 2011. She made two looms by hand, with her childrens help and designed a scarf, that I loved.
I went to Home Depot and had a piece of wood cut, five feet by 24 inches. Then I hammered brads into it at each end. I nailed about 42 nails on each in. (Note: I next time I will hammer the nail in wider apart and maybe use about 35 nails, instead of 42, because some of the strands were too close together). Then, I put the project away for about 1 1/2 month, I just couldn't visualize it nor was I anointed to complete it. During that time, I kept shopping at the resale store for yarns and boy am I glad that I did. This is the yarn, I purchased during that time. Beautiful stuff !!
I got some much yarn, by going to different resale shops and just storing them until, I had several different kinds/types of yarn to start on the scarf.
Yes, I got all these great yarns and ribbon yarns from the resale shop. Now imagine how much it would have cost at retail prices!!!
When I felt I had acquired the right of yarn, I proceeded to start makig the scarf with the assistance of my nine year old apprentice Becca.
Okay, here is picture of my handmade loom. Becca and I made this loom ourselves with the help of my friend, Lulu.
As you can see We just started threading the yarn on the loom. Here's a closeup of us as we continue threading the loom with the threads, which are called the warp threads. They run from one end of the loom to the other end.
The different texture and colors of the yarn, looked so beautiful on the loom.
Here's a picture of the beginning of the weft threads being woven in. I wish that I had chosen the beautiful mohair yarn that they used in the original design located on sunnysideupmama.com. I really didn't like the look of this at first, but it's grown on me now. So the next time I weave another one of these scarves, I will only uses a soft mohair for the weft rows. Here is a picture of the weaving with the shuttle, which has the weft thread around it.
So we continued weaving the weft thread in until we got to the other end. It was fun and took us a total of about 4 hours to complete, only because of some problems we encountered. Again here is the completed scarf. I love it!!!!
After we finished, we removed the welt strings of yarn off the loom and loosley tied each 5 strands together as suggested in the original tutorial.
Well, this was a fun project and this scarf is wrapped in tissue paper on it's way out the door as a special order Christmas gift. Yippee Ki yay!!!
