Studio Scarves

I think I mentioned (although who knows?) that I've been wearing a scarf around my neck in the studio. After buying all those scarves on the Big-Ass Eastern Road Trip, where I never had enough to keep me warm when we were out and about, and where scarves were on sale because it was getting to be what Those People Up There thought of as "warm summer weather," I amassed quite the collection and discovered that, if my neck is warm,
1) the rest of me stays marginally warmer, too, except for, well, my feet and my hands and my knees and maybe my ears and
2) my neck is happier. And, honeys, when my neck is happier, we're all happier

So: scarves for my neck!

When Traci Bunkers showed me the scarves she's been making, I squealed. Now, I can't knit, but I remembered a Steve Madden scarf I'd seen and loved. I bought the hat--you saw that photo--but didn't buy the scarf because it was about $50. Way too much for a scarf. But I was thinking, gee, maybe they're on sale now.  A non-knitter's version of Traci's cool scarves.

So we went to look. Alas, they were all gone, but Dillards did have some soft scarves on clearance, and I knew I could do something with them. I bought two and brought them home and went out to the storage building and brought in my Big Bin o' Fibers, with tons of cool and funky stuff--things I bought long ago and gifts from friends, like some fabulous hand-spun yarn from Reenie Hanlin. Then I got a big needle and started playing.

This is easy-peasy: you get a huge, big-eyed blunt needle--I had one here, but I'm guessing you'd ask for a giant tapestry needle--something with an eye big enough for your fibers and yarn. And just start sewing/weaving your fibers in and out of the scarf. I did this as randomly as possible--going back and forth, trying to keep the fuzzy parts on the front so they'd show.

The blue one before--pretty boring:

And after:

And on me:

The burgundy one after:

And then, just as I finished these, look what I got in the mail yesterday! I LOVE this:

Geri Herman read the note about scarves and said, "I whipped this up for you during one of our many snowstorms." Is that not cool? Go here to see more of her fabulous work.

Thanks, Geri! ♥