I had a nice quiet weekend and with mother nature constantly raining on us I had the opportunity to spin on my drop spindle again. I spun up a nice 3 ply yarn out of my boy CoHo. The fiber I used raw neck fiber. No washing, no carding, just brushed the top out and spun. I’m very happy with the result. It’s fuzzy and very soft.
Since it is neck fiber it did have some guard hair in it. I picked out some as I brushed but in the end it didn’t seem to add any scratchy feeling to the finished yarn. I put the skein around my neck and it was cuddly soft so I’m not concerned with the guard hairs I missed.
This skein will hopefully be enough to finish my scarf I started last week. Since I’m using a small drop spindle I usually only can spin and ply about 50 yards at a time. Blah.
The photo was taken before I put the twist in it so it’s loose, you can see it’s a nice tight spin 3 ply. Some of the plys came out really neat black, grey, and almost white stripped. I can’t wait to crochet it.
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