I Went to Stitches West! (or not)
and all I got was this gorgeous 3 oz of silk hankies…
Okay, so truth be told, if I actually went to Stitches West I’d be sure to have bought much more than 3 ounces of silk hankies. However, this was much easier on the budget and the body.
The wonderful (and frequent traveler for work) Amanda brought these back for me from Stitches West upon my request for semi-solid silk hankies from Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks. She did an amazing job of color choice (these are Mendicino Hedges). Enough color difference to make a nice rich and deep yarn, but subtle enough to not be garish or to barber pole too bad when plied etc. I’m so excited to work with these as I loved spinning from a bell in our spinning class with Maggie Casey at Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins. I’m guessing this will grow up to be a shawl of some sort at some time. But for now I’m perfectly in love with gazing upon the gorgeous things in their hankie state (which is a good thing seeing as how I have 101 things that need doing THIS WEEK).
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