The new, brightly colored mohair from last weekend called out to me as the perfect antidote to the blues.
It was a little harder to spin than wool--a lot like the alpaca blend I bought a while back, the fibers are slippery, and if you don't really put in a lot of twist, the yarn wants to break. When I was doing the alpaca, every time I put in enough twist for the singles to stay together, it seemed like it was going to be really stiff, hard, loftless yarn. But when I plied it, it came out gorgeous. I applied that lesson to the mohair.
Love! Navajo plying sure is a handy skill. I'm definitely not consistent enough to reliably get the colors to line up in two plies, and I really didn't want barber poling on this yarn--I wanted to preserve the intensity of the colors. This yarn makes me drool.
1 comment:
I love that yarn. Those colors are so pretty. I'm drooling along with you.
I wanted to ask you about your hanging yarn. I like the way you have it hanging on the walls. How do you do that? My wool room is fast running out of room. My husband says that I have utilized every inch of space in the room. I never thought about hanging hanks of yarn on the walls.
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