Spinning is done. Next plying. The two bobbins of corriedale will be plied together. The one bobbin of blue will be plied with a strand of thread. Yes, ordinary sewing thread :-)
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Here I am. Did yo miss me? Its just been too hot to play with wool. But I some progress. And I think both of these yarns will get finished this weekend. I think.
The mittens yarns are having a relaxing bubble bath. The brown shetland is 133 yards. The orange/green merino is 223 yards. Huh! I wasn't expecting a 90 yards difference. Good thing is I have more than enough yardage for mittens and a matching hat. The orange doesn't not look significantly thinner, so I may have just failed at the weighting part. No worries either way. The yarn diameter discrepancies will mostly disappear in the knitting. I came home today and thought "I just want some instant gratification, no commitment spinning. I know that 'instant gratification' and 'spinning' might sound like..well..a oxymoron. But its a real thing. I promise. Its when I'm not spinning for a purpose, or concerned about the outcome. I just allow my hands and wheel to do what they already know how to do, and allow my brain to wonder and pay no attention to them.A braid of Corriedale wool, dyed by Spotted Circus, and independent dyer on Etsy. And this little beauty is my Phillip Poore (1920 - 2013) Pipy wheel from New Zealand.A little bit of this. This is a wee bit of Herdick sheep wool. These sheep live in England, mostly in the mountains. They are raised for their meat moreso than their wool, but their wool is used to make rugs. I have to do a bigger test and knit it to see if I want a handspun handknit herdwick throw rug :-)The spinning for the mittens is complete. The two bobbins of yarn feel very different. The brown, which I personally carded, feels squishy and airy. The dyed wool feels dense. I'm betting there is at least 10% more yardage in the colored wool than the brown. It was just more work to spin the colored wool, and the brown felt more like it spun itself. This is why I like prepping (combing or carding) my fiber myself. Yes, its more work on the front end but the spinning goes faster and is more enjoyable, so it feels like I get that prep time back. In short, the time is worth it. Blah, blah.....pictures or it didn't happen.
A bit more of the foreground color today. I was thinking...why is the foreground color taking longer to spin? I think two things are causing it. One, the black shetland was freshly carded, I had just carded it myself and then began spinning it immediately. Which means it was very open, airy and easy to spin.. Whereas, the colored wool, I purchased from a mill in May and no telling when they carded it, so its denser and more compact. And I'm having to stop and check my spinning more often. But its getting there, it will definetly be done before the weekend.
The foreground color for the 2-color mittens will be the orange/green merino. The spinning of that color has begun :-) |
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