New yarns

From the Silk Weaving Studio. The baby skeins are offered as colour samples, and I picked these guys up as totems of colourway ideas that are floating around in my head. Behold duvet-backgrounded cameraphone photo:


My intent is a snood or, as those who are hip are calling them nowadays, an infinity scarf? I'm kind of bored of long scarves right now, as all that extra length seems superfluous and I simply circle them around my neck until I run out of length anyway. I wanted to make a wool one so it can double as a hat but I don't think silk will do that well in the rain, plus I am considering returning to the weaving studio for a hat very reminiscent of a dear, old, lost one...