mmmmm here it is in all its silky glory.

The only real difference between this and the normal Malabrigo Merino is that the silky does have a bit of a sheen to it, but its just as soft and just as good.

But it has no where near the yardage that a normal malabrigo hank has: 150yds V's 216yds
It was a little bit cheaper per hank tho (but not by much).



This is the two types side by side, Blue is worsted and the brown/grey is the silky which i've just realised is DK weight, slightly thinner than normal.

Anyway more jucy pics!!







The colour is not really what I was expecting, but its good I like dark colours. Its a really dark brown with a slight greayish tinge.

I ordered all they had, just four hanks, 600yds... I was thinking of making a Anthropology Caplet with some cool cables but now i'm not so sure. Maybe i'll do a long sleeve one skein wonder for the colder months.....

"Hi My name is CT and I have a shrug problem"


Aaaaaaaanywho I notice that exartstudent (aka MJ) stopped by and left a comment (Hi MJ! *waves*) so here is my progress so far on her Claudia hat. The pictures dont caputre the cool trellis pattern as well as they could... its the damn flash i tells ya! I think some natural outdoor light would have been better.




Because the Elegance that i'm using is DK weight I casted on 130sts instead of the recommended 120 (plus i was using a slighly larger circular cable and 120sts didnt go all the way round! hence the tightness around the edges) i've since moved to DPN's now that the cabling is done. There was a mistake in the trellis pattern that I picked up, but I notice that MJ has since updated the pattern so all is Ooooookay :) so far everything else is fine.

I didnt quite believe that this pattern only took 130yds of yarn :) but thats looking to be the case. So it seems like i'm going to have the majority of 2 balls left over.... I might have to do some small fetching type gloves or perhaps a neckwarmer to match.