Black cashmere finished

The black cashmere weft shawl, woven but not yet wet-finished

I realize I should be bonding with this particular piece at the moment, but in all truthfulness I don’t really like it.  I somehow managed to botch winding the warp!  I don’t know how, as I was being very careful (I thought) to look at all the labels on the cones, but there is one transposed stripe in the turquoise and another in the fuchsia-to-purple range, and they are bloody well obvious.  Ruins the effect I was so carefully striving for.  I’m miffed.  Hopefully with more color changes it will be less obvious.

I may donate this to the Weavolution auction or another fundraising auction for a women’s self-defense/empowerment group that I support, but I’ll decide after wet-finishing.  It’s quite possible that, given the lusciousness of the cashmere, I may wind up keeping it after all. 

I have packed up the sandpaper and cloth beams and am shipping them off to AVL tomorrow morning.  After that, it’s all chocolate, all the time, until I get my beams back.

Well, and hemstitching, fringe-twisting, etc. the shawl.  Maybe by the time I’m done with that, I’ll like it better…