Another One

I made another one of the open-textured scarves yesterday.

I'm still using this family of yarns.

Now to share my dilemma--how much to charge for them? The knitting takes an hour and a half. Add another twenty minutes for winding and organising the yarns and let's allocate ten minutes for pricing and labelling and such-like bits and bobs. So there's a couple of hours. But the yarns are all original handspun-by-me merino and merino-silk blends. There are half a dozen different yarns in each scarf. What would you pay for a scarf like this? Suggestions please!

Making

Remember this?

Now it's this:

A long, narrow open-textured scarf using a variety of my novelty yarns. There are enough purples to make at least one more and then I have a great range of other colours to play with. I'm hoping to make enough to sell some at the next House Market. I'm wondering about offering kits for sale. The only trouble is that measuring and packaging the yarns takes so much time and trouble. So, I'll see how it goes. For now it's knitting.

Weaving Puzzle

Here's a puzzle from the Scarf Festival.

I love this textured scarf: I tried to imagine how it was made and looked for more information on the swing tag: The only technique I can think of that would produce that sort of puckering involves using different yarns in the weft. If one yarn shrinks significantly when washed--or fulled--and the other doesn't, then the areas that don't shrink would be gathered in. The swing tag only tells me "superfine merino wool". That leaves me with a few possibilities to puzzle over:

• was the same wool spun in different ways in the different strips of weft?
• is there another fibre involved that hasn't been listed?
• or is there a technique that fulls and shrinks some areas while leaving othere areas untouched?

It's not quite keeping me awake at night, but I am intrigued. Suggestions please!