Blue and Green Zig Zag Scarf - Weaving WIP

I have recently made friends with a woman who has been weaving for longer than I have been alive, and who's offered to teach me how to weave. Being a fiber artist, I honestly couldn't pass up this opportunity! So I've been trying to make time every week to go over and visit her while she teaches me what she knows - and being a good teacher she knows the best way for me to learn is to immerse myself in a project.

So this little bit of scarf is what I have to show for about 6-8 hours of work... The first setting was learning how to set up the threads in the loom, and learning that weaving involves a lot of math; I did get a chance to actually weave for a while and learn how to follow a pattern (which involves more math, and some geometry) but I beat the threads too hard and packed them too tight. Yesterday I learned how to loosen the threads I'd already beat, and learning how to control my batting so the pattern in the different threads really show up.

I'm really insanely proud of this project, because it's so far outside my realm of experience and I'm really starting to pick it up and learn a lot. My teacher is so convinced that I'm good at weaving that she's even loaned me a simple tapestry loom to work on at home, so I can practice what I've learned on her big loom every week. This is kinda like an old-school apprenticeship and I love it.

So here we've got three work in progress photos of my work thus far. Someday, this mess of threads will be a very long scarf, about 8 inches wide by roughly 7 feet long. (I'm exactly 5 feet tall, so this scarf is going to be obscenely long on me and I like it like that.) It's still all stretched out because it's on the loom, but you can really see the zig-zag pattern I've managed to work into the threads. Maybe I'll eventually see if I can take some photos or video while I actually work, so everybody can see how complex this stuff is.

On the left we have a picture of the scarf from one side - because of the way weaving works the pattern will be reversed on the other side. In the bottom-right photo I held a mirror up to the reverse side of the scarf so you can see how the pattern goes from predominantly green to predominantly blue.