I have never spun yarn with the intention of leaving it unplied. My first 100ish yards of Thistle are entirely too twisty, even after being washed and weighted the whole skein tries to twist on itself and bears little twisty spirals and pigtails. It does not feel like soft merino, it feels pretty hard. I am modifying this in my next spindle-full.
This twistiness worked well in my plied skeins, since so much twist comes out during plying. Lesson learned.
I am going to weigh my current spindles, and maybe buy a dowel rod and some lighter weight craft wheels. The current spindle may be too heavy for fine fiber--at least it started feeling difficult to spin before the cop was a large as usual. I suppose I also might have been drafting too slow. Ah, beautiful soft wooly experiments.
I bet the over-twisted skein will create interesting results when I knit with it. I don't think this first skein will make it into my shawl, though.
I have begun experimenting with shawl creation. The method of beginning seems really odd, yet effective. I am definitely intrigued.
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