Alright, last post on the subject for a while, I promise. Of course, you’d better steel yourselves for a whole tonne of posts about Australia in the latter part of this year, but I will try to keep up the knitting etc. content.
These skeins both came from the ‘Dreams of Gold’ BFL from the Yarn Yard that appeared, albeit briefly, in this post in June. Finally, and thanks in large part to the Tour de Fleece (there are two, and I’m ‘in’ both, albeit in my usual lacksadaisical way), and the fact that I got to work from home on Friday, they are now done. The skein above is a softly-spun (low-twist) single, much in the Malabrigo vein, that runs to about 124 yards of DK/worsted weight. It’s a bit slubbier than I would have liked, but I was struggling with the rather heavy spindle somewhat for that one. It’s soft though. Boy, is it ever soft.
This little darling is only about 40 yards of sportweight, but I adore it immensely as it’s my first attempt at Navajo plying. I did not do ‘proper’ n-plying, where you make short chains whilst spinning the spindle, but rather a modified version of the ‘Navajo Ply-on-the-Fly’ technique profiled here at Rosemary Knits. It worked, to some extent, although more twist in the singles would possibly result in a much tighter plied yarn, so that’s something to work up to. I considered giving the big one away in the Australian Slang contest (see previous post), but I have something else in mind for these, which shall have to remain secret for now.
