HNC first item made

Having developed ideas for eight textile at the end of last term we were asked to develop one of these textiles into a finished piece. I decided to make something using one of the fabric and knitting ideas.



Due to time pressures (and any other excuse I can think of) I went for the easiest option which was to make a scarf, so the next thing to do was buy some fabric and yarn. I went to John Lewis in West Quay to look for fabric and yarn. Unfortunately they didn't have the type of fabric I originally want ed to get but I decided to buy the fabric shown in the photo opposite. I don't know what it is called but it changes colour depending on the angle of the light and is a creased textured fabric. I also bought some yarn which seemed to go quite well with the fabric





When I got home I decided the fabric wouldn't drape the way I wanted the scarf to drape so went to the sewing shop in Alton to see what they had. There I found a devoured type fabric (as seen in the 2nd photo), so went next door to the wool shop and bought some more wool to go with this fabric. (Well you have to add to yarn stash don't you!)



I used the fabric to make the ends of the scarf and knitted the centre section lengthways in garter stitch stripes. I then had to work out a way to join the fabric and knitting as neatly as possible. I used a running stitch along the top of the fabric which I could knit into. I also picked up along the edge of the scarf to cover the selvedge and knitted the two sections together with a 3-needle cast off.



The last two photos are of the finished scarf. I still have the brown tone fabric and yarns which I still want to use but will try one of the other techniques I used in the samples for another, possibly more unusual scarf.