Still Spinning

I finished spinning the corridale fiber this weekend. This time I tried to spin a bit thinner so the 2-ply would be more like worsted instead of bulky. Jocelyn lent me her knitty noddy so I was able to measure how much yarn I have.

This is the skein of the first yarn I spun. It is 71 meters and weighs 123 grams. That is 1.73 grams per meter.

(I used my cool food scale to find this out. The funny thing is I have never used the scale for food, only yarn. But I bought it because I was going to use for a recipe that weighed the ingredients.)

Notice this skein hangs straight. Nancy told me that means the skein is balanced, which is a good time, although I don't know why. I think that means that as you knit the yarn will not twist. But I know the yarn is over twisted. Hmmmm..... So why is the skein balanced?



This is the skein I did this last weekend. It is 63 meters and weighs 75 grams. That is 1.19 meters per gram. That's better. It is more like worsted weight.

As I was spinning I realized that if Dr. Seuss created yarn, this is exactly what it would look like. It goes from fat to thread thin sporadically. There are sections that are so tightly spun they curl and knot and other places that are complete without a twist. There are knots where when skeining the yarn it broke so I tied it together. AND each time I joined a new section of fiber there is a little tuft of fiber that sticks out in all directions. Looks just like the top of trees in a Dr. Seuss book. I love Dr. Seuss so rather enjoy the bazaar look of my yarn.

But even with all this some how this skein is balanced also!!! I'm guessing that is only because I over ply to the same degree that I over twist! So two wrongs do make a right! LOL

Here are the two balls of yarn. The one on the right is my very first yarn and the one on left is the yarn I spun last weekend. You can see the one on the left is a bit thinner, but not much.

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I'm going start spinning the merino/silk 80/20. I'm a bit nervous because I know what I want to knit with this fiber and I don't want it to be bulky. I bought the corridale for practicing, but the merino/silk I have plans for so need the yarn to be reasonable.