There have been some, beautiful scarves called "French Cancan" made from Silk Patagonia over the last few months and I borrowed this one from Julia once to show you and put together a matching wool package.

You can also find lots of lovely pictures over at Julia 's of the making process and the finished full size scarf.

The Silk Patagonia consists of 50% silk and 50% on merino wool and comes as a skein. That means you have to wrap it first. But that sounds worse than it is. You can easily hang it over the back of a chair and wrap it by hand. If you are often at the "winding" is worthwhile perhaps the purchase of a wool winder and a reel, both I now also have in the store, could be a great Christmas wish!

But back to the yarn. Silk Patagonia has a yardage of 250m per 100g (needle size around 3mm) and is really just soooooo soft. It is beautifully shiny and a little slippery when knitting (so use wooden needles, otherwise it sucks). When stretching the cloth please absolutely only wash by hand, there were already nasty surprises after washing machine use, right Christa :). So rather just wash in warm water and dry carefully. By the way, I do this anyway with all my knits, even with superwash parts of the children, crazy or?

You can find the pattern for the shawl on Ravelry, also in German! You could easily ask questions in the Maschenfein knitting round on Facebook - there are already some French cancan experts who are always happy to help.

(linked at RUMs)