I'd really been struggling with the white mystery fibre I posted about earlier this week. It's gorgeous and soft, and I've been able to spin it sufficiently thinly, but it also sheds like mad and requires a lot of pre-drafting, at least at my skill level. And it's fuzzy enough, when spun, that when the single kinks up, it tends to get tangled.
After I had the frustration with the shawl yesterday, I decided to break my personal 'one single at a time' rule, and started in on the fibre I'm going to ply with the white fibre.
This fibre - also a Knit Knackers 'mystery fibre' - caught my eye because of the gorgeous variegated colours. I decided to spin the white stuff first, since, from looking at it in the bag, it just looked like any old white fibre, and the lovely dyed roving would be harder to replace should I mess it up.
Well, it turns out that the variegated stuff almost spins itself. It's already very thin, so it only requires a little bit of drafting and no pre-drafting, and it stays together really nicely - no shedding at all, and very little fuzz.
Where has this fibre been all my spinning life? (Don't answer that... it was in the second of the three batches of fibre I bought. It's been in my stash, the whole time I've been fighting the white.)
(And, sorry about all the spinning content. I know I billed this as a knitting blog. The only knitting news for now is that I took the shawl to the Friday knit night and people were sympathetic as I frogged.)
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