Finally, photos of the Shetland Triangle being modeled by yours truly.
Although it no longer smells so overwhelmingly of goat, the shawl still has a slightly, um, organic odor that has nothing to do with the Woolwash in which I soaked it. In addition, although it is a nice cozy wrap for a cool evening, the truth is that the cashmere did not fluff up as I anticipated, and the twist in the fiber is so loose that it split quite a lot while I was knitting with it.
Most distressing, though, is that the yarn still has a sort of flat, dead look about it. None of the soft lustre one expects from cashmere. Which won’t stop me from wearing it, especially after I added a little discreet beading to the border to perk it up a bit:
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