Some friends went to Maine, and brought me back three skeins of ‘Finest 2-ply SHAKER YARN’ from New Gloucester Maine. It’s a worsted weight, and might well be the most scratchy yarn I’ve played with yet. The colors are great though, and it was immediately suggested that I could make a hat out of it. Someone just wanted a new hat, I think.
To make it wearable, I lined the lower portion of the hat(s) with a soft yarn-in this case left over 100% milk fiber yarn from my Angel Wings shawl. I also held the red yarn double with left over mohair from the Bain de Soil shawl-the colors are so close that you really have to look carefully to see that there are two yarns. This has been a great project for using up some of my leftovers!
The last picture is of the next two skeins. I can make two hats from a skein, so hopefully there will be four more hats soon! I’m planning on holding the blue mohair (left over from a weaving project) with the blue yarn, and debating whether to use it on the aqua too.