Beginner-Friendly Weaving Pattern for Rigid Heddle Looms // Design by Felicia Lo Weave a beautifully soft and simple scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a hand-dyed or handpainted sock yarn for the warp and create your cloth with a variety of colours in the weft to enjoy the colour interactions. The pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members. Skill Level Beginner Yarn Warp: 1 skein SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock in Pine Tree (425 yd / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 1700 ypp / 3427 mpkg; 80% easy-care merino, 20% nylon) Weft: 1 skein SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock in Lichen (425 yd / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 1700 ypp / 3427 mpkg; 80% easy-care merino, 20% nylon) Equipment & Tools Loom: rigid heddle loom with a minimum of 13" / 33 cm weaving width with 10-dent reed Tools: 10-dent reed, (1) boat or stick shuttles, bobbins and bobbin winder (if you are using a boat shuttle), reed hook, heddle hook, paper or warp sticks for beaming the warp (depending on how you dress your loom) Structure Weave Structure: plain weave Warp Length: 1 3/4 yd / 160 cm (includes 15 3/4" / 40 cm loom waste incorporating 12" / 30.5 cm for fringes, 2 1 / 4" for take-up, 7 1 / 2" / 19 cm shrinkage) Warp Ends: 124 ends Warp Sett: 10 epi / 3.9 epcm Weft Sett: 10 ppi / 3.9 ppcm Width in Reed: 12 1/2" / 31.0 cm Woven Length: 45" / 114.3 cm Finished Measurements Approximately 10 1/4" / 26 cm wide x 37 1/2" / 95 cm long, not including fringe This pattern is available for download in the School of SweetGeorgia Pattern Library. Not yet an SOS member? Visit the School of SweetGeorgia for online fibre arts workshops and resources to help expand your skills and discover new techniques, including Felicia Lo's Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics course.
