It’s a 36-yard sample, but still; finished yarn, yay!
Half-ounce of oatmeal BFL (which seems to be more of a grey-brown, really) spun as a single, semi-woolen draw on the 1:5.5 ratio, around 11 wpi after blooming. I expected it to be thicker than 11 wpi; it looked loftier on the bobbin, less so after skeining. I really did think I was spinning a thicker than heavy-worsted single, so I’ll be trying again. I must draft even less. The yarn is nice, soft, and bouncy, though, and certainly my best single so far in that it stays together. It was fun deliberately trying to shock it between hot and cold water while setting the twist, and agitating it to felt it ever so slightly so that it would be less likely to drift apart. It does vary a small bit between thick and thin, though; I’m not as consistent in the self-contained single department as I am in the thinner-single-to-be-plied department.
Why does damp BFL smell better than any other damp wool?
SOON IT WILL BE MINE! :D
I love the texture of this. It has a particularly homespun look to it, like something that was spun in a wee cottage several hundred years ago . . .
xox
Is it as squooshy as it looks in the photo? It looks very, very soft and squooshy!
Very squooshy! You may pet it when you come over this weekend.
Will you bring it to the Stitch n’ Bitch so I can squoosh it too?
Of course I will! You need to see it to tell me what you like and don’t like about it. And maybe knit with it in front of my very eyes.
Oooh! Clearly that means I must buy the pattern so as to have the cable charts to try it with. (Gotta check the stitch definition!)