Just finished spinning my first skein of yarn for the new shawl…
Monday, March 28th, 2005…and my, is it lovely.
It’s a blend of black satin angora, white bombyx silk, and 15-micron merino wool (gray). A nice, lustrous pewter gray with just enough color variation to be interesting, and obscenely soft. It has a nice soft angora halo to it–a little spikier than regular angora, but still very nice. [...]