I made this yarn over the last few days. It’s 68 soft yards in length.
It uses a tiny bit of fiber I had left over from the most beautiful fiber I think I’ve ever purchased. I’m sad to see it all gone. I’m not even sure what kind of wool it was other than I bought it here and it has the most beautiful colors and is so soft to touch. With such a small portion remaining I decided to make a very fine yarn and extend the fiber as far as I could, plying it with a wonderful white Blue Face Leicester. There are so many colors in the first fiber, I think the white works wonderfully showcasing them all.
Here is the other yarn made using some of the same fiber. I striped this one with white and then plied it with a black cotton string.
As I mentioned in a previous post there was a knitalong for making tall socks with handspun yarn and I wanted to see if I would be able to make a yarn thin enough to be sock yarn. I have a tendency to spin thin, naturally, but have you seen sock yarn?!?! It’s SO thin! Well, when I showed this complete yarn to Matt he said “it’s like thread” so I will take that as a positive. Maybe I will be able to make my very first socks with my very own handspun someday :)
You don’t have to have thin yarn to make socks. There are patterns for heavier weight yarns. But I’m sure you could make some really nice sock yarn. Once you get the spinning down, then you can work on how to dye it for stripes! ;)
It’s beautiful! I bet it feels lovely too. Good luck with the socks :)
I love the hibiscus print