5oz of pure heaven
May 1st, 2006 at 7:49 pm (spinning)
Tonite I finished winding a skein from the second half of the plying I did last night. The fiber is Merino/Cashmere. Each skein is approx 2.5 ounces; and they are coming out lovely! No pictures now; the sun is down and they are hanging to dry in my icky laundry room - not fit for picture taking! Debbie would be proud of me, I even snapped them in the shower a few times before hanging them to dry.
Originally I was going to do a three ply, but ~10 yard washed samples
of both told me I’d like the thinner yarn better. I want to make a
sweater, and I tend to get warm fairly quickly; so a thinner yarn will
work out better for me. In both forms the yarn stayed super bouncy;
and is soooooooooo soft. I thought about knitting up a swatch, but
that would have told me the same thing - I like the thinner yarn
better.
When it comes time to make the sweater I’ll swatch several
stitch patterns to see what I like best. My main concern with a two ply was it looking consistent, but I don’t think that’ll be too much of a problem as it looks pretty good even now.
Since the singles have been on the bobbin for a while I couldn’t depend on seeing if it twisted back onto itself in order to get a balanced ply; I just did what seemed right, and what I liked the looks of, and what matched the sample I made a few weeks ago when the twist in the singles was more active.
I have one bobbin left that is still mostly full; so I only have to spin one more bobbin before I can ply again. I’m looking forward to getting back to spinning it.
