It’s been a while since my last post. It’s not that I’ve stopped crafting, so in this post I’ll catch you up with what I’ve been spinning.
I’ve been having fun lately spinning cabled yarns:
These yarns are constructed from four singles. You ply the singles together in pairs, adding extra twist, then ply those two 2-ply yarns in the opposite direction. For the blue/green yarn I spun the singles Z (clockwise), plied pairs of singles together S (anti-clockwise), and plied those pairs together Z. In the purple/brown yarn, I spun in the opposite direction (singles S). I prefer to do the singles S for cabled yarns, but I usually forget when I start and just default to spinning the singles Z. The fibres for these yarns came from Southern Cross Fibre – Grazing on the left and Gingerbread and Sugarplums on the right.
I’ve also been playing with coils:
To create these yarns you start by spinning dyed top with regularly spaced large slubs (thick and thin). These are plied with a commercial 2-ply wool yarn that has had twist removed (to make a more balanced finished yarn). I started using a ginger coloured commercial yarn, but ran out of that about 2/3 of the way through my thick and thin single. So I finished up with a dark grey commercial yarn. The fibre colourway is called Kenya. I bought it off Etsy years ago.
Finally, I spun up this lovely 50/50 merino/silk blend as a standard 2-ply yarn:
The fibre colourway was Weathered from Southern Cross Fibre.
