Could anything be better than watching your team take the field, ready to play a game against long-time rivals? Yes—watching them while wearing a handwoven scarf that shows your colors!
Read on for some suggestions about just how you can go about making custom scarves for yourself or for friends and family.
Finnweave for custom graphics
The Fall 2024 issue of Handwoven includes an article by Claudia Tokola about how she created and wove a scarf with custom team graphics on a four-shaft loom. She writes about everything you need to know to follow her lead.
Claudia‘s doubleweave scarf includes carefully positioned pawprints that are purple on one side, and gold on the other.
Claudia tracked down her team‘s iconic typography, chose yarn in just the right colors, and designed some paw prints of the team‘s mascot. She pulled the pieces all together and made her scarf using finnweave (a doubleweave pick-up structure).
In her article, she lays out the design process, the nuts and bolts of how finnweave works, and tips for weaving so the elements are placed (and spaced) properly on the final scarf. Go read it, and then start planning your own scarf!
Plain weave for plaid
But maybe you‘d prefer a cozy plaid scarf woven in your team‘s colors.
Download the patterns for these scarves, which are woven in home colors of the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots. Not your teams? It‘s easy to swap in your preferred colors.
Designer Elizabeth Hill created two scarves for your consideration. Her versions use the home colors of the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots, but you can change those to the home or away colors of your favorite team.
These patterns are written for the rigid-heddle loom. If you have a multi-shaft loom, Madelyn tells you how to convert rigid-heddle patterns so they work for you.
Happy weaving,
Lynn and Christina