Weaving is addictive

Yesterday was a luxury - an entire day to myself without work, laundry, or errands to run.  I thought about jetting off to London for or cross country to see friends, but it was necessary to be at work at 8am on Monday.  Instead, I got up, made a pot of tea, and baked a batch of fresh scones.  I had the entire day to myself to do whatever I wanted!

And I did.

A box of yarn arrived the day before from The Loopy Ewe that included some additional back up skeins for the Sky scarf (more on that this week) and two skeins of Handmaiden's Casbah sock in the Pansy colorway.  They were destined to be a woven scarf for holiday gift giving that I wanted done early.  (I am determined to get more of my holiday gift giving done earlier this year!)  Since I had the entire day to myself, I figured I would wind the yarn and get it warped onto the loom.

I got it warped and then it was time for a lunch break.  After eating, I popped in Season 2 of Downton Abbey, and figured that since I had the time, I'd weave for a while I watched an episode or two.  Before I knew it I had to put disc 2 in and then I was about two-thirds of the way done. 

Weaving is quite rhymic so I changed to disc 3 and wrapped up the scarf.  It came off of the loom the same day it went on and it looks fabulous.  The green turned out to be a little more lime than I expected, but it pops and it helps to break up the blues and the purple.  Coming off the loom it measured 8" wide by 68" long without fringe (76" with) and I ended up using 136 grams of the sock yarn with translates to 418 yards total. 

Going to play catch up on the Sky Scarf (Ravellenic Games distracted me!) and then back to the Shaelyn shawl.  And because I can't resist close ups of woven scarves on the loom, I'll leave you with this:

PS - The whole day was lovely!