Weaving with Speckled Yarn – Schacht Spindle Company

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Last updated 17 May 2024

Weaving with Speckled Yarn – Schacht Spindle Company

Pair a speckled yarn and a solid (or tonal), then weave a scarf in color blocks on your 10" Cricket rigid heddle loom.
By Benjamin KrudwigWestern Sky Knits CollaborationWe've all been there—standing at a fiber show and staring at a wall of hand-dyed skeins of luxury yarn. They call to you, but your pocketbook screams in terror hoping that you don't pull down enough for a sweater, and sighs a relief when you only pull down two skeins. A stunning speckled skein (so hot right now) and a semi-solid contrast skein.It's now been a few months, the yarn has languished in your stash waiting for the perfect project, but you don't know what to do with it. The knitting patterns don't sing to you, and crochet uses too much yarn, so what do you do?Weave with it!This scenario happened to me at Yarn Fest this year. I was in the Western Sky Knits booth and I couldn't help myself when the Nightfall colorway leaped into my hands, and then I HAD to get a second contrasting skein.A few months have gone by, and I couldn't sit there and stare at my yarn any longer. I needed to do something with it, so I decided to swatch up some woven samples on my Zoom Loom, curious as to what would happen when I wove up the speckled yarn.I fell in love with how the colors interacted with each other, and how they interacted with themselves. Wanting to have each of the samples represented in the finished piece, I decided to divide my warp in half with each color, and then weave blocks of color.Left to right: Nightfall; Peppered; both colors togetherProject SpecsWeave structure: plain weaveWarp length: 92" (234 cm)Total warp ends: 80 (40 in Peppered and 40 in Nightfall)Width in reed: 8"