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I hope you all had a good Christmas, if you were celebrating. Or a nice quiet day if you weren’t. My cousin from the Bay Area was visiting his daughter in NYC so we had a small get-together at my sister’s.?

I found 2 more skeins of Koigu while hunting for yarn to make a few class samples and rearranged the colors of the scarf. I think this is the one that I’m going to follow. I also looked long and hard for the skeins of yellow or gold KSH I bought from Jannette but I can’t find them. So these carry along yarns will have to do. The palette is a little cleaner with the two new skeins as they are both the same colorway. One of the others that I had there before was a bit jarring. I think I will use the last one on the end (which is one of the new ones) as a border, if I need it.? The pattern only used 9 skeins and I have 10. I am planning icord so may not need a border.

I was pondering this the other day when I was wearing my Earth Stripe shawl. I did a single crochet border around it and it looks and feels very nice even after quite a bit of use. So the icord is a go. But I could pick up and knit a garter st border from the icord if I feel the shawl needs a bit more cohesiveness once it is knit.?

What I’m pondering now is whether to start with the Elann KSH clone and only put the silk in if I run out, or use the silk first. I may do the KSH clone first so as to preserve the silk for weaving if I don’t end up using it.?

Does 18” wide sound about right? I’m dithering on that also.