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Spinning musings

 Look at the gorgeous, squishy spinning sample. It's 25 grams and 48 meters (so 192 meters for 100 grams). In other words, on the heavy side of an 8 ply not the sport weight I was aiming for. 

I'm going to keep trying and spin up the 600 grams of fibre I dyed last week. - if it comes out this weight it will make a great Traveler shawl. If I can get the yardage I'm actually after I'm making the Traveler hoodie. (I just discovered that American's spell traveller with one "l" while we use two).  It very much surprised me to learn that I cannot recognise the size of yarn, and that my default yarn is a 12 ply (bulky). This is a little unfortunate, since my default yarn to knit with is a 4 to 8 ply.

In other spinning news, when I was at Bendigo I decided to buy some new bobbins. I've got at least 6 of the old, ugly, plastic Majacraft ones, but they make new ones that are much nicer. It was near the end our shopping Saturday, and I was shattered, so when I saw big bobbins, I thought that it would be great to get more yarn on them. It wasn't until later (not much later, mind you) that I realised that I had bought plying bobbins. So I doubled down and bought a plying flyer, which came in the mail just now.

So, when I finally get my enormous amounts  of very fine (for me) singles spun up, I'll be able to ply them on these giant bobbins. I'm sure I'll be musing about spinning here before the process is finished, particularly since I've limited myself to 30 minutes at a time, in order to protect my wrists and shoulders. Still, as I'm always reminding myself - about spinning, about knitting, about reading it's not a race and there is no finish line.

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