I cast this on Tuesday, March 11, and finished it up Wednesday, March 12. The yarn was spun up from a fiber club shipment from Paradise Yarns that I ordered on a whim. It was a multicolored top - a mix of purples and yellows, and there were some other colors in there as well. It was composed of 60% Extra Fine Merino, 25% Baby Alpaca, and 15% Tussah Silk. I divided it in half, horizontally, so I could get two bobbins of singles, and then I stripped it lengthwise and spun it with absolutely no color management. The resulting yarn was beautiful, and I’m sorry I don’t have a better picture of it. It came out as worsted weight.
This is a picture fresh off the needles, before it went in for its blocking soak. There is lots of color stuff happening, but it is pretty subtle.
And this is some of the yarn. I actually had two skeins, a smaller one (this one) and a larger one, which I did not take a picture of. The yarn was lovely - soft, silky, with great drape, and cushy. It was also pretty consistent, which made me very happy. Given how soft it was I knew I wanted something that I could wear close to the skin, so I cast on a simple cowl. Just some rows of garter stitch at beginning and end and rounds and rounds of stockinette. I even took out the end of round marker after I finished the first section of garter because I really just didn’t care and I wanted to make sure that I used up all of the yarn. I only put the marker back in when I started the garter stitch for the end.
I spun the yarn on my Kromski, with a 12:1 ratio, and plyed it on my Kiwi, with a ratio of 9.5:1. I even used a plying bracelet at the end to make sure I used up of the singles.
I really like having two wheels, one for spinning and one for plying so I don’t have to adjust them, and can have in process spinning on my Kromski while still finishing up other spinning efforts.
Pattern: None - simple cowl, just cast on stitches, join in the round, and go
Yarn: Handspun
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