This is the spindle yarn, I dont know what the fibre is, but its not very soft. I bought it at Lambtown last year and it has made quite a chunky yarn.
This is some BLF that I bought to practise with on the spindle - this fibre was rather felted and the yarn is also rather chunky. The colours worked out nicely.
Here is the stuff that I have spun since my lesson - it's still very thick-and-thin, but a lot better than the purple stuff. I plied it as a 2-ply, but also had a go at Navaho plying, which looks better for this yarn, but I had very thin singles and was obviously rather rough with my plying as it kept breaking.
Still, I have a pound of the orange stuff so I have a lot to practise with!
3 comments:
It's so cool that you're making yarn!
Me, I'm just buying it. :-)
Yay!
Your plied yarn is streets ahead of my first attempts - which looked almost bouclé due to uneven twist on the singles - and to be frank not sure how much I have improved!! But I still managed to knit with it.
...I look into your future and I see a hat....
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