As I sat there next to my spinning wheel with yesterday morning’s coffee (that being yesterday.. I don’t drink day old coffee), I just happened to notice this: (the roving)
Either I truly am a creature of habit or I am slowly losing my mind without noticing. Maybe both? So, I did what any curious spinner would do, I swatched it. My singles and the roving were looking an awful lot like this:
the sleeves for the Ribby, using Noro Silk Garden in #84, a close up of the swatch.. Is it only me that sees the similarity, maybe the camera doesn’t get the colors right?
Back to yarn stuff.. Anne had asked a while back about balancing my singles. With the merino / silk it’s easy.. I don’t even need to hang it weighted. With this stuff, mostly mohair, I soaked, hang dried the sample weighted and the semi blocked the swatch. As you can plainly see, it is askew. The yarn has way to much energy twist. I had not intended it to be a single, but when I saw the Noro next to it, had to play around a bit. I’ll try some both ways, spun finer and plied, and some with less twist. Has anyone found that more heat sets the twist better?
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Can’t help with your question but I love the color.
I’m wondering the same thing about setting twist. There was a post a while back on the spin list about basically beating up your yarn, but I haven’t gone back to search for it.
As for the colors, I totally see it. I find that I go on “kicks” with colors. Maybe you’re just in a rich reds kind of a space right now. Can’t blame you–they’re beautiful.
Yes, I heard that if you wind it up on a niddy noddy, then steam it then let it dry, it should set the twist better. I don’t have a niddy noddy yet and tried finishing a skein of singles over the weekend — it ended up being a nasty, awful pile of twisty and curly singles that I then spent ALL of Monday untangling. The niddy noddy is on it’s way!
Yes, it’s very Noro-esque.
I like the color. It looks like the Noro, only melted.
I haven’t found that it particularly does, one way or the other, but I rarely work with singles. I’d be interested to hear if you experiment tho.
What great reds!
I noticed it before I even read it. It’s beautiful!