This Post is a Shameless Cop-Out

I’d planned to do an update on how my trip to sleeve-island is going (better), but then the cat wanted many snuggles. And for the sake of household peace I could not deny her this thing.

So behold instead, a lovely cop of yarn I finished plying earlier this year:

I started this (checks Rav notes) in May 2020. So…. I finished it in less than 4yrs. My intent is to knit myself some socks with it, so it’s done in a fairly high twist 3ply yarn. The Charollais let me spin both quite fine and very high twist singles. It just soaked up twist.

I spun it on a spindle from Cynthia Wood Spinner. I can get the spindle going quite fast using a thigh roll. I used an Andean spindle from Abby’s Yarns¹ for the plying and palm rolling to get that going quickly. One thing I’ve learned makes plying less unpleasant for me is to wind a plying ball first of my singles. Then I get all the stupid tangles and twist shenanigans done in a single session. The plying itself goes much more smoothly and I can do it a few minutes here or there just as I spin my singles. Does it make me love plying? No. But it means I actually do the plying.

I still need to wind the 2nd half into a skein to get my final yardage, but I think I’ll have somewhere around 350yds. This should be enough for socks, and I may try a toe-up and two-at-a-time method to ensure that I use every inch I can but don’t fall short.

1. psst…. they are putting up new spindles soon. Please buy so I don’t because I have a flower vase full already ↩︎