Plying Jewels
Okay, the singles are done . . . well, for four of the eight ounces of fiber . . . and here goes the plying.
I just started–plied for about five minutes before stopping to relax. I worked all day, but all I could think of when I got home was sitting down with the last five lengths of roving and getting them spun. So I did.
Then I pulled out my other WW bobbin, got the plying started, and went to sit down on the couch with Chappy for a bit. (Still tired from Rhinebeck, don’t you know.)
I still love the colors in this roving–yellow and blue, ranging from almost orange in spots to almost navy in others, but mostly, just nice, clear blue and yellow. So pretty. It’s interesting, though–when I glance down at the bobbins of singles, seeing them at an angle, rather than head on–they register in my head as “green.” Kind of weird, huh? Especially when there’s no green in here at all? But as we all learned in kindergarten, yellow+blue=green, and apparently my eyes are sticking to that!
And here is an oh-so-exciting photo of my latest swatch. It’s Elsebeth Lavold’s Silky Wool in a really lovely plum color. The ball band says to use size 6 needles, so, naturally, I started with 4s. Still too big a swatch, so I ripped back and knitted on 2s and came up with the gauge on the ball band–22 stitches over 4 inches–practically a miracle!
Of course, the pattern calls for 24 stitches . . . I’m going to have some math to do either way!
Typing this post, I’ve noticed a problem . . . my “D” key is being, um, stubborn. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and since this is a laptop, it’s not like I can just plug in another keyboard. Uh-oh. I wonder what the warranty on this was . . .
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I’ve swatched Silky Wool several times and can’t get gauge at all. A friend has used it for a couple shawls and I envy them all the time.
Oh. Sounds like a potent Silky Wool warning. I wonder how Margene got gauge on her Funnelneck sweater.
Oh oh… Having a D name makes that D key REAL important…
My husband had the keys not working problem on his laptop a little while a go. It was 3 or 4 different keys. Somehow he pulled up a keyboard on the screen and used the move the mouse and click method of typing for a while and then he did get a keybord and plugged it in and then after about 6 onths the keys started working again. They still work today. I don’t know. Crazy.
you’re right, it does read green. still, very pretty.
and i gotta get me some silky wool!
I think a lot of what is making it read green is the way the Woolee Winder puts yarn on the bobbin. It makes it a much more pronounced blending than may be present in the final product. The plied yarn looks amazing though!
Very pretty spinning. Would be interesting to see what color the eye reads in a knitted swatch.
Ahh Silky Wool. I so love it. Sorry, I get gauge with the suggested needles these days, but for years and years had to seriously drop down in size to do so. I’m not terribly sure what I’m doing differently now though.
Love the spinning and the swatch!! What are you making with it?
I love that color of the silky wool…I went and picked boring old tan for my sweater and I didn’t regret it ’til I saw your swatch ;o)
Ooh, that silky wool is divine! I love the color, texture… Very pretty. I knit a Lavold sweater a number of years ago (before she had her own line of yarn), and loved making it. I still love wearing the sweater!
Your plied yarn is really pretty. Looking forward to seeing it knit up one day.
You can probably have the sticky key repaired, gf.
Ew, swatching. I’m trying to make an 8″ square and having a terrible time. Stupid gauge. Love the spinning.
Your result of getting an overall “green” look, at least at certain angles isn’t suprising, as you mentioned. I am wondering if you’ll get it looking blue, yellow and green at various points depending upon how the colors in the singles line up…
Gauge can be so frustrating sometimes! *sigh*
The singles are gorgeous. Very jewel-like. I like the plum yarn, too. Very pretty swatch. an’ it’s very har’ to type without a ‘, isn’t it?