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My niece is quite an accomplished crafter, and she asked to weave a pink scarf the next time she visited. I bought some extremely pink acrylic yarn from Hobby Lobby. For the warp we used the solid color (Boo Pink), and we doubled the weft with a spotted pink (Pinkalicious). She was able to hemstitch and weave about a foot of the scarf before leaving. I finished up the weaving and realized how slippery the yarn was. She had to really work for her first woven scarf! She did a fantastic job with a thin and difficult yarn, and I think the scarf looks great.

It may be difficult to part with this scarf and mail it to her. Maybe there's enough pink yarn left to make one for myself??

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She's helping! I love it when my cats decide to check out my weaving progress. 

I spent some time weaving color patterns, no pickup sticks are needed. The first attempt was made using Frog Tree Meriboo, and I warped four ends next to four ends of different colors. The weft was done the same way: four picks of purple, four picks of blue. The edges look scalloped because I started the colors on opposite sides. I actually like the look. This scarf, using just 200 yards of yarn, is very petite, coming in at 5" x 48" with about 4" of fringes on each side.

The next attempt is still being finished. It's a houndstooth pattern, created by warping 2 ends by 2 ends of contrasting colors. Again, the weft mirrors the warp pattern. And once again, I began the colors on opposite sides to get the scalloped look. This is an old acrylic yarn that I'd rather not use for anything, but I wanted to try to make a cover for my piano keyboard, and if it doesn't work out, I won't mind at all. (Maybe it will be a kitty blanket!)