Jane Patrick's spaced out fulled scarf was popular enough to be featured in a gallery in Spin-Off at some stage within the past year, and while I contributed a scarf to the gallery, I was never happy with it. So I decided that it was high time I wove one up that would actually get worn. Most importantly I wanted it to be long and wide enough to actually offer some protection against the elements. I'm a double wrapper. If a scarf isn't long enough to wrap around my neck twice, it generally collects dust.
 

So I decided to measure out a four yard warp. I am quite certain that the stars were not aligned in my favor last week. It took me a good five minutes of loading yarn onto my warping board before I realized I was measuring out three yards, not four. Let the unwrapping commence...and now...let the re-wrapping commence.
 
Yarn at last measured, it was time to remove the warp from my warping board and cut the ends of my warp threads. I will not bore you with the details, but I mis-cut. There on the floor sat a full yard of warp threads, and in my hand, a three yard warp. Thankfully my wits had been sharpened against this cosmic test during the warping incident, so I was surprisingly un-affected by the wonky warp in my hands. I set to dressing the loom with my now three yard warp. As this scarf is meant to be fulled, I decided to tie the cut ends onto the warp, full the scarf, trim the ends and hope for the best.
 
I used Araucania Nature Wool in color #19, a dark brown, for my warp - two full skeins. This scarf was woven on my Baby Wolf - full width of 26". The threading sequence as follows:
 
8 ends
8 empty
16 ends
16 empty
8 ends
16 empty
16 ends
8 empty
8 ends
8 empty
16 ends
8 empty
8 ends
8 empty
8 ends (Malabrigo worsted merino in pale khaki)
8 empty
16 ends
8 empty
16 ends
 
Aside from the pale khaki stripe in the warp and one section of eight picks of the pale khaki about 16" into my weaving, the rest of the weft material was Malabrigo worsted merino in marron oscuro, a beautiful, chocolate-y brown. I wove tromp as writ, which basically means that I wove in the same sequence as the warp. I used a large pick-up stick to create spaces in the weft, and aside from the section of knots that had to be manipulated through the heddles and reed, the weaving went very quickly.
 
I won't lie to you. Weaving the section with the knots was a pain in the bottom, mostly because they needed assistance to pass through the reed each time I had to beat. BUT, I would do it again, since my finished scarf is exactly the length I wanted. 
 
I rolled the woven scarf up into a total of three towels, and secured the bundle with rope. It then went into the washing machine. I soaked it in hot soapy water for about 20 minutes, and then ran it through the delicate cycle, removing it when it got to the first spin. I unrolled the bundle and hand rinsed the scarf. From here it went into the dryer for a ten minute zap on low heat and then air dried the rest of the way.
 
Once dry, I trimmed all of the knots that hadn't been fulled into the scarf, which interestingly was almost all of them. After picking and trimming, the row looked in need of just a bit more fulling. I soaked this small section, and then using my hands, hand fulled it until it blended in. This only took me about five minutes at the most. You can't even tell that there was ever a problem. Success.
 
Pre-wash dimensions: 108 1/2" x 22 1/2" + 11" of fringe on each end
Post-wash dimensions: 77" x 12 1/2" + 6 1/2" of fringe on each end