#got the finished yarn pic during the literal only 15 mins of sunlight today btw

[shakey-wakey]

Done yarn! The yarn is done!

Yarn details and then rambling below the cut <3

I get to finally participate in the yarn gauge bullshit (affectionate) that ive seen from other spinners! This is 105 grams and about 447 meters which puts it at a fingering weight, and on the thinner end no less, BUT. either like 9 or 14 wraps per inch, which is dk or worsted weight (i measured it two different ways, i think the more correct way is what got me 14).

Im guessing it should work up like a sport weight but i havent knit a swatch with it yet so oh well, we shall see

Fiber is from Supernova Dye Works, which is local to mid-michigan! Its polwarth in the colorway swamp monsters in l♡ve

My original plan for this was to spin sock yarn, but i got 2 different braids of fiber at the shop and i mixed up which was which. Theres this one, and then i got some malabrigo cloud, which is superwash, but i thought the polwarth was the superwash one... and it isnt. I know socks dont have to be superwash and that people have been making nsw, 100% wool socks for forever, but i dont wanna handwash my socks, and i didnt want to make the supwerwash fiber into the socks, so i had to change gears.

(Yeah ive been spinning this since before i finished the other one, dont worry about it)

That said, my tentative plan for this yarn is to make a mallorn shawl (the one that looks like leaves). Skein one was split into 7 strips which i spun end to end, and skein two was split into 8. Hopefully this makes the yarn work up very variegated, and if i alternate skeins as i work, im almost guaranteed no pooling. Im gonna start on the shawl and once im a good way in and i can see how the colors sit and what the stitch definition is like, i might decide to frog and knit it into a daft days shawl (by creabea). If i do decide to do that, i have some wool of the andes floof that i can spin up to match and use as the other color, and i think theyd look really good together. Not gonna start knitting until december or january, but im very excited work with it whatever i end up doing. I might also end up liking the mallorn shawl but not having enough yarn and frogging it all anyway...

Oh i almost forgot, i also wanted to show the lil test spins i did! When i realized it wasnt superwash, i decided to do a swatch for sock yarn and a swatch for lace yarn to help me decide. Just grabbed a handfull off the end of the braid. I spun, washed, and knit both swatches all in one day

I did the lace swatch in an actual laceweight and then saw that the mallorn shawl calls for a sportweight but it was still nice to see, and im glad to know that i am in fact capable of spinning sock yarn

Fulllll full full cop

(Skein 1 is 50 grams, the tp tube and the spindle are both 25-ish and will become another 50-g skein)

Chain-plying tomorrow, plus washing if i get done early enough💫