A Thermal Scarf with Drape
By: Melissa Ludden Hankens / November 09
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Now that your pick-up stick has been inserted, put your loom in the neutral position. All threads should be on a flat plane. Carefully slide the pick up stick towards you and turn it 90 degrees on its edge
about an inch behind the rigid heddle. This movement should lift the threads on your pick up stick that were the up part of your pattern. If you were to then weave across with your shuttle, you would see that your weft passes over more than one warp thread. You just created a weft float.
To create a warp float, you use both the rigid heddle and the pick-up stick. If you put your rigid heddle in the up position and slide the pick-up stick flat up to behind the heddle, you will now see that
all of your warp ends except those that were the down part of your pattern have been lifted up. If you were to throw a pick now, you would create a warp float.
To recap: rigid heddle in neutral with the pick-up stick turned on edge = weft float. This will commonly be referred to simply as pick-up stick or pattern stick when you’re reading a pattern. And rigid heddle in the up position with the pick-up stick
slid forward = warp float. This will commonly be referred to as up and pick-up stick or up and pattern stick in your pattern.
Now that we have all of that down, let’s get to the project.
Yarn requirements: Four skeins of Green Mountain Spinnery Sylvan Spirit 50% wool/50% Tencel yarn – 180 yards per2 oz. skein. I used Antique Brass and Citrine. Handwashed in warm soapy water and then steam pressed, this yarn lost almost no length to shrinkage.
Equipment: Schacht Cricket or Flip Loom, pick-up stick, stick shuttle, yarn needle.
Finished dimensions: 8 ¾” x 76” + 3” fringe at each end.
Warp length: 95”
Width on loom: 10”
Ends per inch: 10
Picks per inch: 16
I used Antique Brass for the warp.
Pattern:
Row |
Heddle Position |
1 |
Up |
2 |
Pick-up stick |
3 |
Up |
4 |
Down |
5 |
Up and Pick-up Stick |
6 |
Down |
Weaving: Allow enough waste yarn at both ends of your weaving to create fringe.
Leave a tail approximately three times the width of your weaving.
Weave 1” plain weave in Antique Brass.
Hemstitch the front edge of your weaving using the tail. Instructions can be found in Yearning to Weave Lesson Two.
Weave nine repeats of pattern in Antique Brass.
Switch to Citrine.
Weave in pattern until you have approximately 5” left of weave-able warp.
Switch to Antique Brass.