Question about a good project for a small amount of homespun

[untonuggan]

I just learned to spin yarn on a drop spindle. It is fun and amazing! (I have All The Posts about it on my journal if you are interested.) Anyway, my question is this. I spun the following yarn:


Three small skeins of heavy worsted/Aran weight blue-ish-purple-and-white twisted yarn (2-ply)

By my admittedly inaccurate measurements (as I don't have a niddy-noddy), the yarn is about 27 yards long. (I measured by measuring around my arm, which is what I wrapped it around when I turned it into hanks, and then doing multiplication/division). I would call it approximately a heavy worsted/Aran, although as it's "art yarn" homespun (i.e. done by a beginner) it goes thick and thin. It is not of the highest quality because it is practice wool, and it is also feltable.

My question to you, oh knitters of dreamwidth, is what project you would do with this yarn. It is SO gorgeous and pretty. I do not have any more of this exact fiber, so I was thinking of maybe getting something that kind of goes and then making a hat? But that also seems like work for something that is not super soft. I was also thinking of making something and then felting it, but it seems ridiculous to felt something with such nice texture. I could knit it in with machine spun yarn, tis true. I dunno! Maybe it should live in my stash for awhile whilst I think?

Thoughts?

Entrelac shawl

[pensnest]

The door to my lounge is mostly glass, and through it I get an interesting, distorted view of white/beige, with highlights of orange and black. For a long time, I've been thinking about knitting something using this colour combination, and last month, I actually got around to it.

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It's entrelac, with a newly joined yarn for each segment, and was intended as a stashbuster—it did quite well in using up a bunch of not-quite-whites, particularly when I decided to fringe it. I started my knitting life as a disciple of Kaffe Fassett, so my stash is a huge collection of one-off balls... I should probably have made the dark patch a little bit larger, but I didn't make a plan, just made it up as I went along, and it turned out pretty well.

Now, of course, I don't know what to do with it!