I realized I forgot to blog this, a gift I made in July.

It’s a mixture of mostly mohair and mohair blends, wool, and cotton. This was my first foray into mohair, and it was a bit of a challenge. I thought I was being smart by bracketing each mohair warp with a slick cotton warp (or at least not two mohair together), but that just wasn’t good enough to make it easy. When I crossed the warp, they stuck together with great familiarity.

Off the loom, pre-washing, you can see the variety in the warp – something like two cottons, three mohairs, and the gold wool. The weft was just two different mohairs, the lighter and darker grey.

I made this as a gift, finishing it at 1pm for an evening wedding. I hand washed it, and then draped it over an air conditioning vent with an additional fan.

A light open weave, it dried with hours to spare.

SAORI Six is on the loom. NO mohair. (But I have a mohair boucle with gigantic loops that emulates Persian lamb. When I feel like a challenge again, I’m going for it.)