Ha! Now you are in for it. My first yarn has dried (and I’ve finally had time to do photographs), so you get to see my first (poor) efforts at spinning.
Here are my singles:
Gee, can’t tell which one I did first, can you? *Grin*
Here’s my plied yarn. Please ignore the weird knot thing there and the occasional loop. One single ran out before the other, so I tried to Navajo Ply the rest. Not pretty nor easy to do with a seriously overspun single.
And here is the finished product. A whopping 66 yards, which I’ll either make into a coffee mug cozy, or just leave it out as is for decoration. I have a plan for the second yarn (including making enough to do something with), but I am waiting for my spinning book to arrive. I ordered Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn by Maggie Casey on recommendation. Tracking says it left Des Moines on Sunday, but projected arrival is Thursday. I guess I’ll just have to do something else until the book comes!!
Those are fabulous singles for a first try! And an outstanding finished 2 ply. You did great.
Wow- an ambitious project- but looks like fun- and good results, too!
Thank you, thank you! I admit that I’ve been lurking in the spinning groups on Ravelry and absorbing stuff from any links I can….like Abby’s site: http://www.abbysyarns.com/wordpress/ and some web video’s on spinning. I’d done a bit of spinning on spindle, but it was a super cheap little one, so didn’t do much for me. Definitely the first time I had plyed, though….it wasn’t as intimadating as I thought, but I did get tangled a few times, and one ply broke on me occassionally, leading to interesting fixes!!
That’s your first try?? Your yarn looks great!