This kit takes us on a detour by introducing a new yarn, Malabrigo Silkpaca.

It includes four skeins of yarn, two for warp and two for weft. You can make two smaller scarves (7” x 54” each) or one larger scarf (9” x 72”). If you want to make two large scarves, order an extra skein of your warp color.

I have woven many warps out of Silkpaca and I have come to believe that less is more. The yarn is glorious that there isn't much I have found that enhances, rather than detracts from it.

Four and eight shaft patterns are combined. You can choose to weave this in plain weave, or you can add in a bit of huck lace.

The rigid heddle pattern gives the option of using warp and weft doubled in a 12-dent heddle, or using two 10-dent heddles for a finer cloth (instructions included).

The pattern includes information about how to handle wool, fulling, felting, and wet finishing, hemstitching, techniques for lightening up on your beat, and the differences between knitting yarn and weaving yarn.