Finishing Up the Tencel Scarves

We are now well into our second month with snow on the ground, a very unusual year for the Okanagan Valley. We generally have snow around Christmas, then by mid January it’s gone, gone, gone. We have been having lots of grey days and yesterday we had the dew point and the temperature the same, it was a beautiful sight; frost on the trees. This is the scene from my back deck, looking toward the north.

My second tencel scarf is off the loom and already been trotted off to the guild show and tell, and it got very favourable comments, but surprisingly for me so did the one with the purple weft! Using red tencel as the weft really made a huge difference, much more forgiving of any beat differences. I chose to change the pattern to be all over squares rather than runs of pattern. This photo is of the scarf under tension on the loom. The undulations are very well behaved.

Without tension, but still on the loom, you can really see the puffy three dimensional blocks.

Now all finished and pressed it looks quite lovely, I'm very please with this one.

Since I was taking photos in my guest room, I thought I’d show you a set of overshot pillows in 'Cat's Paw or Snail Trails' that I did a few years ago, very classic in blue wool and natural white cotton.