I January I went to Nancy's Sewing Basket on Queen Anne. It is a wonderful fabric store full of silks, brocades, wools, cashmere, linen. Definitely not a shop geared toward quilters. They have an entire room devoted to ribbon, new, antique, European. All yummy. Needless to say, when I go I seldom walk out empty handed.
On that visit I fell in love with this lovely silk/wool blend. It's baby blue. Soft, fuzzy wool on one side and smooth, satiny silk on the other. It was super wide - something like 72". I lightened my wallet by a yard.
I planned to make 3 scarfs each with a lace crochet trim. I began by turning the rough edge with a blanket stitch in a lavender wool/silk yarn (Zephyr). Then distractions snuck in. Quilt projects, other yarny projects, so it sat. I would pick it up from time to time, but mostly it sat.
The silk side is dreamy to run your hand along.
I've decided to finish most of my works in progress before I head into new adventures. (That's mostly true, but that's a different story). Over Memorial Day Weekend I finished the blanket stitch I began the crochet part.
The first two rows... I'm using a 1.50mm hook, which is bigger than hooks I've used on some other projects. I had hangnails larger than some of my crochet hooks. You can see just the tiniest bit of the fuzzy wool side of the fabric.
I think it will be super cute when I finish.
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