I am quite pleased with myself and my yarn. I spun the roving and rigged myself up a lazy kate:
(It’s a shoe box with knitting needles jabbed through it)
I plied the yarn, but as you can see I wasn’t quite perfect on making the bobbins the same length. Can anyone tell me if there a fix for this that I don’t know about?
I had a little trouble getting the feel for the plying at first, but by the end the yarn was beautifully balanced with no weird twistiness, and for what I want to use it for I don’t think the mis-plied sections will matter that much (I am keeping my plans up my sleeve for now).
Here it is on the bobbin:
And off:
I am quite pleased with my results and have a bigger bag of the same stuff in a red colour way to work with in a little while after I try out a few more things. I fancy a matching beret and gloves out of that one as I think it will be enough.
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August 12, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Zylo
Oh, check out the color. I love the blue/brown mix. And is it just me or is anyone else excited when they see the repurposing of a shoebox? Great job.