On my Undoing and the death of lash

I posted this first picture back in June - all about how I bought this great Tilli Tomas, and an Italian ribbon yarn and some colorlash (eyelash), and how I was going to combine them to create an amazing fiber concoction. I was avoiding spending $70+ on some beautiful Ellyn Cooper. You know how it is: I rather do it myself. So, after winding it all together, and knitting the start of a shawl, I realized it looked horrible. This next photo is me and Joanne over at Major Knitters de-plying (new word) the whole huge ball of it. The eyelash just had to go.

Thanks to Joanne I didn't give up and trash the whole thing. It certainly took some undoing.

In the end, it looked like this: The hideous trial-scarf on the left, the mound of eyelash on the right and the Tilli and ribbon in the center, hopefully to be used on some future project.

The moral of the story: if you see a beautiful multi-strand - buy it. And whatever you do: STEP AWAY FROM THE EYELASH.

I guess eyelash has gone the way of the pashmina, wouldn't you say?

Comments

[Jennifer]

Eyelash lately makes me shudder.

[Heidi]

Yes, but what can we do with that leftover eyelash in our stashes? Any ideas? Even non-knitting ones, like use it to stuff pillows?