Mini Maisie and Big Maisie did a great job cheer leading and occasionally threatening the My Favorite Sheep team this year. I loved seeing posts from people reporting in to that affect :-D. I made the mistake of letting her come out into the aisleway for a private Cheerio party one night...and have been fighting that battle every night since :-o.
I got my whole 2 1/2 pounds finished. The last six ounces were a bit of a slog mentally, but it's summer and most everything is a slog mentally right now. All in all it was a fun spin.
I liked my two ounce bundles plan. That was a pretty do-able daily amount of spinning and a couple days I was able to spin two and catch up from days I didn't get as much done as I planned. The other benefit was I knew when I plied two together they would easily fit on my big bobbins.
This has become my basic plan any time I spin a large amount of yarn. I spin each bundle, trying hard to match the thickness and twist of each to the next to the next... That never happens. Even with a spin card and sampling, I never keep consistent throughout.
In the past I've wound off each ply into a ball and marked the number. Theoretically the practice is ply the first with the last, the second to the second from the last... I can't even get that consistent so I try to eyeball each ball and match it accordingly.
That plan doesn't work super well for me either because after it's in a ball I can only see the outer wraps of yarn. What's inside could be totally different. Yeah... I got popped by that that on a couple of the Muffin skeins and ended up with several skeins that were thicker than the others.
I over thought that came up with a plan to counteract that...and it worked! This is my most consistent spinning to date.
Washed and drying - my favorite part of spinning.
1,850 yard of worsted weight yarn, skeined up and ready to become a sweater.
Exactly what I wanted :-D.
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