After finishing up Skein 14 I saw that I didn’t have that much left of my latest bag of Heinz 57 so I decided to spin it up and keep working on my drafting and also the fineness of my singles. The top was a bit more than I typically spin on a bobbin (I did not weight it, but have calibrated my eye for how full I like my bobbins to get about 40 grams of single per bobbin) so when I reached that point and still had fiber left I did another bobbin. This gave me four bobbins, two with about 40 grams and two with about 15 grams. First I plied up the two 40 gram bobbins and ended up with this beautiful skein of fingering weight yarn. It came in at 82 grams and 347 yards, or 4.21 yards/gram. Spun on my Kromski at 16:1, plied on my Kiwi at 15:1.
After finishing that skein I took the two bobbins that had the smaller amount, and the leftovers from Skein 14 and weighed them all. Then I put them on my Lazy Kate (lightest at top, heaviest at bottom) and made my first 3-ply yarn. Spun on my Kromski at 16:1, plied on my Kiwi at 7.5:1.
It came out perfect. 100 yards, 36.5 grams, or 3.65 grams/yard. I posted a picture of it in the Sheepspot Guild for the Friday spinning check-in, and was recognized in the spin of the week. The challenge for May was a new to you ply, and this was mine. I haven’t dyed it yet and I want to make some more 3-ply. I’m thinking colorwork socks, but we’ll see what I end up doing with it. I’m getting a little faster with the plying, still syncing my treadling with my drafting, but settling in to a nice rhythm.
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