Anne Hanson does it again!

I bought yet another Anne Hanson design -- her latest, Caricia (also in her store), is stunning! but there seems to be only one source of Handmaiden in Australia, and their web site says nearly everything is out of stock ... nor do they even list the 5-ply cashmere-silk suggested in the pattern. Looking through the yarns available at Sunspun and Southseas, it's not all that easy to find yarn that's 400-450 yards per 100 g -- lots of them are more like 300 yds, and then there are laceweights with 200 yds per 25 g ... Eki Riva has a baby alpaca yarn that's 400 m, which would feel very nice, but the colours aren't very interesting.

Anyway, I've got two cones of cashmere-silk somewhere in my stash: red and cream -- I'm just not sure how many yards are on the cones. There's also a cone of lavender yarn, which might be alpaca ...

Mon 2 Feb 2009: correction -- the red stuff is 150g of pure silk (!) and the lavender yarn is, indeed, alpaca (4 ply superfine, 475g) ... 17 wpi makes it light fingering weight, and very likely 400 yds per 100g -- not as exciting as the Handmaiden, but it's in my stash, and will look almost as nice as it feels.