Playing! Scarf #1

After finally satisfying my recent Hobbit obsession :)  I was very excited to PLAY.. I felt like making scarves, something I haven't done for a while.  The next few posts are all about them ..  The first three I had very clear pictures of them in my mind for about a week before I got round to making them.. and they are all veeery different :)

SO.. scarf #1

I wanted it to be irregularly shape and very frondy.. richly coloured with fancy yarns and silk sari pieces.

Started by doodling with some lovely yarns; my favourite slubby red woolen yarn,
with charcoal and smoky blue alpaca/wool boucle yarns

Building up the shape based on the yarn doodles

First layer down, lots of lovely purple

Second merino layer is a lovely rich raspberry

Third layer is lovely purples again.
Small mosaic like tiles of silk sari fabric and thin strips of aubergine pure silk velvet

Turquoise merino doodle pattern 

I really enjoyed making this one, I got totally into the zone.  Now, even though it's in my shop, I would SO love to keep it.. but you can't keep everything.

The sari silk and silk velvet felted in really nicely :)

Frondy, frondy :)

I like the curve on it worn this way :)

xoxo