Weaving Two Fall Scarves with Gather Textiles

This project is a really special one! It’s made in collaboration with Gather Textiles, a very cool Canadian company. It’s made as part of their fall collection which theme is “Campfire”. For this project, I’m weaving not only one, but two scarves! And they really just are the perfect fall scarves. Join me as I’m weaving two fall scarves with Gather Textiles.

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For this project, I will explain a few particularities and technical parts of making the scarves. If you wish to make the same scarves at home, I invite you to visit Gather Textiles’ website. They sell kits that contain all the yarn necessary to make the projects. They also provide a very detailed pattern and instructions. Here’s the link to their website : https://gathertextiles.com/collections/campfire-pattern-kits/products/lakehouse-rigid-heddle-scarves

The Yarn

The scarves are woven with some very nice alpaca-silk yarn. On the cones, there is so much yarn that I couldn’t resist weaving two scarves! The cones are so generous that at the end, I still would have enough yarn to weave a third project! Both scarves have the same warp, but I made different designs in the weft. The colors are beige, brown and royal blue. The royal blue is vibrant and gives a stunning look to the scarves.

As previously stated, the theme for Gather Textiles’ fall collection is “Campfire”. This really inspired me to weave some plaid! However, I wanted to give it a little twist and push the limits of my rigid heddle loom. This is why I have integrated some fun color effects into the patterns. I feel like we often weave houndstooth and log cabin on rigid heddle looms and I wanted to do something a little different this time.

In the warp, the color effect is very simple: it’s two ends of brown and one end of beige. This sequence is repeated for about 10 times. In the weft, I had a lot of fun with it and I did several variations. They all give visually interesting results.

The First Scarf

For the first scarf, I reproduced the warp into the weft and I enlarged some of the parts. I also made two variations of my color effect, because why not? The first variation is the same sequence as in the warp: 2 browns, 1 beige. In the second, it’s the inverse!

The Second Scarf

For the second scarf, I made everything on a smaller scale. I also spiced up the color pattern. Instead of using only 2 colors, I decided to use all three colors and I’m very pleased with the result.

Technical Tips

The most challenging part of this project is weaving the color effects into the weft. In all three variations of it, I’m using three different shuttles. Believe me, maneuvering three shuttles at the same time can become messy really quickly. In the video above, I’m showing you how I manage those shuttles. It’s all possible thanks to the two shelves on my stand that are located left and right from my loom. Small tables or chairs could also work.

The color patterns all have sequences of three picks. Each shuttle represents one of those picks. Every time that I weave one pick, I put the shuttle back on the shelf. As that there are three shuttle and only 2 shelves, there should already be a shuttle on the shelf. So I push this shuttle closer to the loom. For the next pick, this will be the one that I will use. Then I weave one pick and I let this shuttle on the opposite shelf while pushing the shuttle that is already there closer to the loom. This mechanic reminds me of braiding hair.

Those scarves were really fun to weave! I can already see myself all warped up in them at a cottage by the campfire. If you also enjoy those scarves, don’t forget to visit Gather Textiles for more info:https://gathertextiles.com/