buttercup & berries

Finished my second yarn of the year -- Buttercup & Berries. Only 131 yards, but it is so soft and beautiful!

Roving from http://juliespins.etsy.com


The singles


Plying


Finished!

1st finished yarn of 2009!

Hot SW merino roving from http://juliespins.etsy.com. 3-ply, 141 yards.

Hot - Roving


Plying




Plied


Washed/Whacked

sweet jade!

Sweet Jade SW merino from spincerely.

Roving


Singles




Plying


Plied


Finished yarn

autumn's joy finished!

I'm really pleased with this. It was my grand experiment with 3-ply fractal spinning, and it's a beautiful blend of structure and randomly placed color. 1 ply is a short color repeat and 2 plies are long repeats. I didn't try to match up the long repeats -- I like a little randomness in my structure. :)

Roving


Singles wound for plying


Plying




Plied




Finished

buttercup & zaria

buttercup - yarn, I made it!

I finally finished the Buttercup SW merino/tencel from Spincerely. 3-ply, 148 yards, 18 wpi. It’s like liquid sunshine. It fluffed up considerably more than the Zaria, possibly because I fell asleep while soaking it... for 5 hours. :)

Roving


Singles


Singles wound on the plying bobbin


Plied!


Finished!

mini mystery skein

I spun a wee tiny 11 yard (35 feet) skein last night. The roving was a mystery fiber sample that came with my roving from woolytreasures.


After the agonizing week I've had, playing with something pretty was just what I needed. I spun it all, and realized that while it would look great as a 3-ply, it might work well as a Navajo ply. That way, I wouldn't have to measure out the length, divide it into 3, blah blah blah. So I gave it a shot.


It's my second attempt at Navajo plying, and it's not bad!

Looking for Truffles finished!

BFL/Bamboo from butterflygirldesigns.etsy.com.
83 yards of 3 ply DK weight at 11 wpi.

Roving


Single


Singles wound together for plying


Plied




Finished

a history of my first yarn

This post is for my Mom, so I can show her my first spinning project. (Hi Mom!)

It started with this roving. It's 50% superwash merino wool / 50% tencel (which is a manmade fiber made from cellulose.)



I spun it into thin lengths of yarn called singles.



I wound the 3 singles together into a ball in preparation for plying. (I got the idea from abbysyarns on Ravelry -- it's infinitely easier to ply from a ball than from 3 singles.) Plying is twisting the singles together to form a thicker, stronger yarn. I spin the singles clockwise, then ply them together counter-clockwise.



Last night I plied the singles, which took quite a damn while, let me tell you. This is a 3-ply yarn because it has 3 singles in the finished yarn.



Then I washed it, whacked it, and hung it to dry. This morning, it looked like this. It's BEAUTIFUL.







(Big picture can be found here.)