Weaving Soy silk

When I plyed this soy silk with silk noil it was so drapey that I thought it would make a great scarf. Since I only had 150 yards it wasn't enought to ask Sue to weave so, yesterday I warped a number 2 "toy" loom that I have had forever and gave it a try.
This is the soy silk/silk on a silk noil warp with rayon chenille and silk stripes.

The loom leaves something to be desired. The shuttle that came with is too think, too wide AND too rough. I am now using shuttles made of mat board. Not a 100% improvement but better. I do like the way the rustic appearance of the weave and to my surprise have about 2/3rds of the scarf woven.
Got the new Spin Off magazine and saw wonderful looking small folding looms advertised in it. Maybe I'll upgrade.

Another used for Mohair

This week I decided to try making a mohair wig. My model, Emma, is a 16 inch RanD Angel, BJD, with a size 5 head.

I used the directions at Antonette Cely's site for wefting the mohair. I then stitched it to a net wig cap, set it with pipe cleaner curlers (great tip - I got in a FDQ mag) and wrapped the crown on the model with plastic wrap to "tame" it . Left the damp wig to dry over night in between processes. The pink color is courtesy of Kool Aid. This was a fun project and I have already dyed wool locks for two more.

Plying

I added three new yarns to my etsy store today. Photographed them as a group and they compliment each other well and would make a nice striped project aombined with some of the yarns already listed.

I did a spinning test of the natural black grey, white and white/grey fleece and plyed the two resulting yarns together. Came out very tweedy looking. Haven't decided whether to knit with it or list it. What do you think?