I blogged before about the fiber that had arrived from Wingham Wool Work. I set to work spinning the merino in the silver grey colour though to me I think it's more a light lilac colour. 
Having a beer and spinning go well together. The Edelweiss is really good actually, lovely and light. The merino was a little harder to spin than the beer was to drink, it's a short staple fiber so it needs a lot of twist and it works better spun finely. I spun about 50g of the fiber and then made a two ply yarn from the singles. I made one single and then plied from a centre pull ball. I kept a bit more of an eye on the plying this time. At the end the yarn was a little over twisted but the soaking and drying sorted that out.
At the end there was 62m of about aran weight yarn. 
A close up with a 10 cent coin for scale. 
Lovely Lilac Merino Labels: Spinning, Stash | 4 comments»
March 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM
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March 3, 2009 at 12:11 AM
What a delicious post-- the wool and the beer!
I have never tried spinning but am intrigued. It's such an archetypal/fairytale activity. I'm a bit intimidated-- maybe I should have a beer first!
March 3, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Lovely yarn, well done! I agree though, it looks more lilac than silver.
March 4, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Drinking a beer and spinning a yarn about spinning yarn.
March 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM
I can't mix knitting and beer, though. I drop stitches after a pint.
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