Aug 3
I’ve started plying my combo spin and my two greens from completely different dyers match perfectly. I’m getting a light fingering weight for the most part, but it will be interesting to see if it plumps up any in the wash.
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I’ve started plying my combo spin and my two greens from completely different dyers match perfectly. I’m getting a light fingering weight for the most part, but it will be interesting to see if it plumps up any in the wash.
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Big Skein, Big Plans
Phew, the big combo spin I started in the last week of Tour de Fleece is d.o.n.e.
Both braids were part of a 2013 spice-themed fiber club, along with a lovely green Norwegian from Lanitium Ex Machina that I already spun up during the 2014 Tour. I never paid much attention to these braids because they were red. And I don’t do red. (I’ve even tried to destash them, with no luck.)
Once I actually took them out of their bags, they were not just red. There was fire, orange, rust, fox, coral, salmon, squirrel, brown... all sort of shades! The combo’d skein turned out pretty interesting and also much more orange than I’d expected.
On Ravelry: Red Hot Spicy Combo
Fiber: 100% Shetland from Hopeasäie and 100% South American from Knitlob’s Lair
Yardage: 921 m or 1008 yd
Skein weight: 195 g or 6.9 oz
Grist: 473 m/100 g or 4727 m/kg or 2345 ypp
Plies: 2-ply
Yarn weight: Fingering
And I’ve already got big plans for the skein: I want to spin some natural black to go with it and knit them all into a colorwork cardigan. Top down, of course. Possibly steeked. Yikes.
K-K-K-KOMBO SPIN!
I got kind of addicted with welfordpurls’ spinning podcast on YouTube. She talked about combo spinning in one of the early episodes, and when I picked up these two braids at a knitting retreat in April, I immediately knew I wanted to do a combo spin. One of the braids was a Southern Cross Fibre club color, the other an unlabeled mystery fiber I picked up for free.
Initially, I wanted to do a 2-ply -- spin each braid onto separate bobbins and ply them together -- but the mystery braid had already been dipped into so I would’ve ended up with more singles on one bobbin. But I got it for free so can’t complain. :)
Second plan, split the braids lengthwise in thin strips, spin alternating from each pile and then navajo-ply. The drawback was that the colors may not have blended as much as I wanted. I started spinning this way, spinning quite fine and with a lot of twist to account for the chain plying in the end. And then I had a brainwave…
Plan #3: Spin one bobbin in A, B, A, B… order and the other B, A, B, A… and then 2-ply. This way there’s more color blending which is what I initially wanted.
The “bad” (not really) thing is now I ended up with a thinner and higher-twist yarn than I’d aimed for.
I was planning to knit a shawl with this but now that I know the final yardage, I’m faced with a dilemma. It’s definitely plenty for a large shawl but it might also be enough for a small-ish cardigan. Would I wear a cardigan in these colors? There may be some swatching ahead.
On Ravelry: Dark Heart of Winter
Fiber: 110 g of Southern Cross Fiber Kent Romney Lambswool in “Heart of Winter” + 74 g of mystery wool
Yardage: 1078 m or 1179 yd
Skein weight: 180 g or 6.3 oz
Grist: 599 m/100 g or 2971 yppÂ
Plies: 2
Yarn weight: Light fingering
And now I’m eyeing some more potential combo spin pairings in my stash!