Square One Scarf

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.

SKILL LEVEL

• Beginner

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• Approximately 10 1 / 4" / 26 cm wide x 37 1 / 2" / 95 cm long, not including fringe

YARN

• Warp: 1 skein SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock (425 yd / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 1700 ypp / 3427 mpkg; 80% easy-care merino, 20% nylon) in Pine Tree
• Weft: 1 skein SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock (425 yd / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 1700 ypp / 3427 mpkg; 80% easy-care merino, 20% nylon) in Lichen

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

The pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members.

The School of SweetGeorgia offers many courses and tutorial resources to help you improve your skills and discover new techniques, including Felicia Lo's Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics course.