Spinning that took for-ev-er

I’ve been working on this sea wool forever it seems. I started it on my Schacht Matchless, which is now my home wheel. So I couldn’t work on it at my spin-ins; and only when I was at home and wasn’t doing a zillion other things. I had finished the first two bobbins fairly quickly; but the third took a bit of time.

before:
SeaWool - ready to ply (by Nancy Walsh)

after:
SeaWool Handspun (by Nancy Walsh)

I finally plowed through it a week or so ago and did the plying last weekend. I did a 3 ply; when my original idea with this was a 2 ply lace weight. I decided I would like the three ply better. Plied up, it’s fingering weight, and fairly bouncy. I’m pretty pleased with how the colors distributed themselves. I tried to capture the variety in this picture by laying all three skeins out next to each other.

4 Comments »

  1. marta said,

    July 21st, 2008 at 8:21 am

    stunning….absolutely stunning

  2. Lola LB said,

    July 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Wow . . . this is just beyootiful! Marta, you took the word right out of my mouth . . .

  3. Rae said,

    July 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    I have to agree with the comments above its goregous

  4. Audra Sommer said,

    July 24th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Please bring to the next book club so I can feel in person. :) It’s amazing!

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