So I've been spinning. Actually, spindling. And knitting with energized yarn I plied, but that's different story. When I get disgusted, in fact, with the energized yarn, if it's slow at work, I pull out the spindles and some roving and have at it. And in fact, this Saturday and Sunday it was regularly paced enough that I spun several ounces of wool roving.
Since the last time I posted, my spindling has improved. I have gone from evil dreads that ultimately graced the trash pail to some acceptable thick and thin that plies well and looks "homespun" to some really nice, consistent thickness of yarn. The wool roving is quite a bit stickier than the superwash I started with, and today, I finally succeeded in doing some actual long drafting. I was impressed with myself.
I wound everything off on a too small niddy noddy, and then went to my favorite source for all things video, YouTube, and found a wonderful video about making an Andean bracelet for plying. With computer in front of me, video playing, I made the Andean bracelet, and used the cheaper than cheap, poorly balanced plying horse spindle (named Buffy because I sharpened the bottom with the pencil sharpener, and it would kill any good sized vampire with a great quickness!). The yarn plied like a dream, and is really well balanced. I finished it, and it's dry.
The second skein turned out to be a monster in size. There was absolutely no way to tie two balls of yarn together and make an andean bracelet. So Buffy and I got quite the workout and darn it, the balls were of uneven length, so I andean plied what was left on the second ball into a third skein.
Tomorrow . . . adventures in dying yarn with food coloring and kool-aid . . .
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