Spinning in circles

I’ve had a little down time and have gotten back to the wheel. Mostly I am plying some reclaimed yarn from a few sweaters I bought at the thrift store. This one is a really nice green cashmere sweater that was very fine and I thought the yarn would work better for me as a Navajo-plied yarn. I think it will work nicely as a shawl, it should have a lovely drape to it.

 

 My other project has been to take apart some tips. We have had some of our wool made into very nice, thick socks and the company asked us if we wanted the tips that they cut off when they finish them. It is about a ½ inch bit of sock, almost like a hair tie but not elastic. We said sure, why not? Well, as it turns out there are several yards of a thin single-ply in that ½ inch and I’ve started un-knitting them and putting them on some dowels in a make-shift lazy kate. Then I’ve plied those together to make a heavier three-ply yarn. I’m not sure what will happen to it next, we shall see. It is the brown skein in the middle.

 

The other two are my funky art yarn that is plied with a reclaimed green cashmere yarn and a solid white, single-ply yarn from the bag of starter yarn that came with my wheel.

 

I should probably stop bouncing around between projects, but I can't help myself. Happy spinning everyone!

 

-M