#yarn plying

[theoriginalladya]

Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 21

Sometime over the next week or two (maybe after I've finished up the plying of all the yarns, maybe before) I'll share a pic of all the spinning from this year's Tour de Fleece, but for now I ended it with plying the last of the two bobbins I started yesterday. BARELY fit onto the bobbin, too. I'm amazed at just how much yarn I got out of this for just one set of bobbins! It's going to be an amazing amount of yarn to play with over winter!

But for now - I did it! (and I now remember why I usually save my spinning for Tour de Fleece - once a year is a LOT! lol.

[exercise-of-trust]

ended up taking 2 months to finish but they're finally done! the roving is divine dyeworks oceana, 6oz of merino chain-plied to about 550 yards of light sport/heavy fingering. the streaks of green and purple ended up much less pronounced in the final yarn but honestly i'm fine with it; i like the more subtle heathered look.

[spindleanddye]

🩵💜💛

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I FINISHED THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SKIES AND I WISH TO COCOON MYSELF IN IT

[crookedtines]

Bought a lighter spindle (0.7oz vs the 1.7oz of my first spindle), spun some thread, and had to triple ply it to get it the same weight as what I'd spun before.

Triple ply is on the left side

Turns out there's a huge difference in texture between the triple plied stuff and the double ply. It's soooo smooth. Looks smooth, feels smooth, nicer in every way except how long it'll take to spin an equivalent amount.

Granted, the texture of the double ply is exaggerated by being overspun, but I don't think I could've spun that finely without the extra twist. (I was really pushing what I could do on that spindle.)

[makerandbean]

oh my gosh oh my gosh i REALLY did not like the way this was spinning up during plying and thought i’d made a terrible mistake but! look at it!! gorgeous. exactly what i was going for. 10/10 past me on your decision making.

2ply fractal spun BFL braid from Sealy MacWheely (in “robin”, i think). might have to get another couple of these because i am absolutely desperate for a full vest in this colour…

plus bonus “i had some left over on one bobbin” chain ply:

[roboticchibitan]

I am thinking of using these sun and moon Granny squares but use this fingering weight yarn I already have instead of buying worsted weight yarn to make a celestial themed Granny square Cardigan.

I dyed the blue yarn myself using Jacquard acid dyes colorway sapphire blue and I have approximately 1,470 yards of it but I don't think that's enough for a crochet Cardigan that's big enough to fit me. Crochet takes more yarn than knitting and I'm not even sure I could knit a Cardigan big enough for me out of it either. Unfooooortunately, this was one of my first dye experiments and I'm not 100% sure I took notes. I will have to check.

The yellow all I have is this half a skein of what I think is Madelinetosh Merino light in colorway Candlewick. Idk i've had it for literally a decade. But I think it'll be enough because I don't plan on having moons or suns on every square. I'm planning on alternating between four small squares sewn together where two are plain blue and two are patterned, and one big Granny square. I would draw what I mean but I am too tired to do that right now.

It took all of my self control to not buy the pattern today. It's only $5.25 CAD which is like $3.97USD/€3.65. But my gf got fired so I'm trying to keep frivolous spending to a minimum. I considered asking if a fiber arts mutual would buy it for me but honestly what they all SHOULD be doing is spraying me like a naughty cat whenever I talk about starting a new project before winter holiday gifts are done.

[radjerda]

A late contribution to @glorfindelweek : Crochet Glorfindel 🌻🏵🌼

He's based on my Glorfindel design, and the crochet work was inspired and guided by CraftyTibbles' fabulous Elf Archer crochet pattern!

[bookshelfdreams]

look look look at this handdyed fibre I got for christmas 😊

it's 250g of a bfl/silk/llama blend

i split each braid down the middle (more or less) to hopefully preserve the colour gradient & make some 2-ply

looks like it will come out to a light-fingering-to-fingering weight :D

[comfortabletextiles]

Finished the last rolag, from @swords-n-spindles color fade yesterday! And today I could strat the ply process!!

2oly ball + plyed in chain ply = easy 6 ply yarn!

Even though my singles are always horrible overspun, the ply is very soft so far :)

[guardevoir]

Tour de Fleece, Day 5:

200 grams of 4-ply, DK-or-worsted green sparkle merino nonsense.

With the 100 I did a while back, that brings me to 300g done, 100 left to go.

I always, always underestimate plying. This took me a solid two hours, and I will be sore tomorrow. Which is, incidentally, also why I am not gonna take this off the bobbin today. I'm glad it's done, I'm happy with my progress, but it's also half past five in the morning and I am going the fuck to sleep.

Also, fun fact: My plying involves an utterly cursed, horrifying habit of making plying bracelets once singles start to run out, which allows me to whittle down leftover singles to one single bobbin that is either: a) only a couple inches of stuff and goes into the "future amigurumi stuffing" pile, b) part of a big project and will be used to pad out the next batch of singles, or c) gonna get cable plied (4-ply) or chain plied (3-ply). This usually results in a completely lossless spin!

[pigeon-feet]

the colors in this blend are unreal. my question is :

how in gods name do i ply this for it to look good.

[dyke-arachne]

Socks I made before I learned that just because a base has the word sock in it doesnt mean it will be good for socks. Hence these will exclusively be worn when my feet arent gonna touch the ground.

[brittlebutch]

800 yards of hand spun yarn already on its way to becoming a hand knit sweater vest <3

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Soooooo soft and shiny

[mor-and-more]

Also that's the swatch

I am gonna be thinking about it the whole time I'm nyooooomming through the last skein of the shawl <3