Knit Sisters

I finally finished the tufted novelty yarn.  I ended up with some extra singles, so I plied those together as a 2-ply smooth yarn.  So now I have 3+ skeins of tufted yarn and 1 smaller skein of coordinating 2-ply.

I’ll be curious to see how the rayon ribbon reacts when I wash these skeins.  When I was in college, I used a rayon yarn for weaving which would visibly shrink (picture writhing snakes) when it got wet.  Obviously, you had to be pretty careful about pre-shrinking that stuff before you started weaving with it.

I can imagine how you might be thinking about now, “Why didn’t she experiment with that rayon ribbon to see if it was going to shrink before she plied it with the tufted lime green wool 2-ply?  Wouldn’t that have made more sense?”  Well, the short answer is, “I don’t know and yes, it would have made more sense.”  I can only say that I was in the grip of severe spinning mania and didn’t think things through real clearly at the time.  Besides, seeing as how the whole tufted yarn was an adventure, now I have something else to look forward to.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

I started right in on the wool and angora blend that I made myself with my handheld combs.

This stuff wants to be spun fine with lots of twist, so that’s exactly what I’m doing.  This is about as fine as I can spin. 

 

Someday perhaps I will be able to spin a single as fine as a human hair (that’s what the best Shetland spinners are said to have been able to do), but that day is not today.

I’ll have to ply this in some way; 2- or 3-ply has yet to be determined.

Next time (Wednesday) on Sarah’s post:  Exploits in making “yarn” out of bias strips.

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