Spinning and Jayne
Done!
This is that blue single I showed earlier this week, plied. I first plied it on Sunday, but I was in a hurry and did a lousy job. It was incredibly loosely plied. No amount of setting the twist was going to fix it. So I wound up re-plying it. In other words, I wound it onto a ball and ran it through the wheel again to twist it more. Much better! This is the second time I’ve had to do this, so clearly plying is an area I need to work on. Plying, for those who aren’t fiber geeks, is when you take two or more strands of fiber and twist them together. It makes a stronger yarn, and one that in theory doesn’t pill as much.
I had some of one bobbin left over, and rather than Navajo ply it onto the end of the skein, I decided to leave it as a single. This is part of what I spun at Simucon, which explains why the thickness and twist is all over the map. I actually think I like this yarn better as a single, though, colorwise. I worry that the plied is too random in its color shifts and may be a bit busy. Well, this was supposed to be a learning experience, so I call this a success, since I learned!
The final skein turned out to be 152 yards. Plenty to make a nice scarf or something with.
A word of warning, though. In addition to gift projects for the other loved ones in my life, you’d be behind the Jayne line, which exploded last night as forward-thinking Browncoats geared up for Christmas. It now stands at 30 hats in line, including orders from this morning. (Brown Sheep, send me my #$*# yarn!) So you’d get your gift in, maybe… 2010. You can wait, right?
Because I’m just too proud, here’s the progression:
Big time fun. I look forward to doing this again!
Oh, kittens!–your Christmas line has ALREADY started to pile up?!
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Maybe I’ll just wait til AFTER the holidays=.=
Oh, kittens!–your Christmas line has ALREADY started to pile up?!
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Maybe I’ll just wait til AFTER the holidays=.=
Heh. It’s only about eight weeks, max, at the moment. Really it’ll probably be more like 4-6, but I factor extra time into the estimates I give clients, in case I get hit by a bus or something else takes me out of production for a while. I’d rather estimate long and lose orders than estimate short and have someone be disgruntled because it’s taking too long!
Heh. It’s only about eight weeks, max, at the moment. Really it’ll probably be more like 4-6, but I factor extra time into the estimates I give clients, in case I get hit by a bus or something else takes me out of production for a while. I’d rather estimate long and lose orders than estimate short and have someone be disgruntled because it’s taking too long!
I had to do it retroactively to just about every yarn I spun in the first year or two after I got my wheel. So the fact that you’re figuring it out now when the yarn is still fresh is pretty good, in my book. 🙂
It’s lovely. Darker than I expected from the roving. Interesting.
I had to do it retroactively to just about every yarn I spun in the first year or two after I got my wheel. So the fact that you’re figuring it out now when the yarn is still fresh is pretty good, in my book. 🙂
It’s lovely. Darker than I expected from the roving. Interesting.