1200 Warp Ends...

Yup. 1200. That is a whole heck of a lot of heddles to thread! It's for a custom-request shawl - I'm making it entirely out of 2/18 Zephyr (50/50 wool/silk blend), sett at 24 ends per inch for a complex 8-shaft twill pattern. I've worked with finer yarn, but it's been a while...

Here's a quick picture of the yarn:

The colors are called curry and indigo - I'm using the curry as the warp and the indigo as the weft. It's going to be very striking, I think. Too bad it's so hard to capture how lovely this yarn is on film - it has a really nice slight sheen to it from the silk, which is a nice contrast to the fuzziness of the wool. I love this fiber too!