Here they are, the first two fabulously ugly scarves, woven with the fabulously ugly yarn I hoarded for years because I couldn’t decide if it was fabulous or the most hideously ugly yarn I’d ever seen. Somewhere in the two studio moves the labels were lost, so I’m not sure of the content. I got the yarn at a swap, and at the time I was pretty snobby about natural fibers, but who knows where my head was when I voluntarily adopted this yarn. I might do a burn test, but the left one sure wrinkles like cotton. Anyway they look much more beautiful worn than this scan shows, and are soft and cuddly.

The left one is totally fab ugly yarn in a plain twill. The right one is tabby and alternates fab ugly and red cotton flake in the weft.

I think that I have enough yarn left to make one more, and my goal was to use every bit of it. If I was not lazy and liked math, I would have calculated first whether I had enough. But since I am a wild and crazy woman, I decided to live dangerously and do it this way. It was more fun because I approached it as a puzzle.

I decided to tie on to the original warp so that I wouldn’t have to rethread the heddles and reed. I had 82 ends at 12 ends per inch. First, I wound as much of the fab ugly yarn as I had for a length of about 7 feet. (Tying on to the original warp reduces the warp waste.) I had 54 ends, so I had to rework my warp design a little. I made the red and blue stripes wider to bring it to 82 ends, and I hope to have enough red cotton flake to weave the whole thing. Using this shareware WeaveDesign program helped a lot, and the design is below. The red stripe on the left is actually in the center, and it is symmetrical. We’ll see if the treadling drives me insane. Well, more insane.

I have it tied on the loom now and hopefully will begin weaving this afternoon.