Loop

I succumbed to impulse purchases at Elfriede's Fine Fabrics this summer.  This 1/2 yard piece of 54" wide silk shot chiffon (fuchsia in one direction, black in the other) was only $4 so it came home with me.  It would have made a rather short scarf on it's own.

But, then I saw Habu N-80, a silk-wrapped merino yarn, at Twist during their summer sale.  I bought a 1 oz skein (187 yds), cast on 40 sts and knit in elongated seed stitch on size 7 (4.5 mm) needles until I ran out of yarn.

I sewed the chiffon into a tube in the long direction and inserted the knit piece in between the short ends to form a tube about 80" in circumference and 9" wide.  It can be worn looped three times (above) or twice (below).

I just love the textural contrast between the smooth chiffon and the seed stitched wool.  The wool is surprisingly not scratchy after I washed and blocked it (before sewing it to the chiffon).

Does your stash grow while you sleep?  I do not understand how this ~2 yard piece of silk came to be in my luggage.  When I unpacked my purchases from the trip, there it was.  Where did it come from?

@ Shams: The silk was folded up in a 1 quart ziploc bag, which stores don't usually use.  It's extremely odd.  I don't think that Stone Mountain and Daughter gifted this to me--though, in the 1980s, they used to gift me quite a bit of fabric with their generous cuts.  I actually thought that I was able to buy 1/4-1/3 less fabric all the time because I was so efficient with layout.  Another seamster insisted that I measure my fabric and she was right.  Remember the rule about "a yard and a thumb"?  Well, the cutters at SM&D had very fat thumbs for their regular customers.  I shopped there both for my personal needs and for the costume shops of Berkeley Shakespeare and Repertory so the cutters knew me.