These two babies are fresh off the wheel, and ready to be plied. This is the Sage Merino I bought in Maryland. I found out that this is actually from Ashland Bay, and Cloverleaf Farms carries it, or can order it. I divided the 4oz I had roughly into two parts, and spun each of those onto two bobbins. This is unusal for me, usually I spin it all onto one bobbin, and wind it into a center pull ball, and ply it from there. Works for me, but this time I decided to change it up a bit. Seeing as these singles are about lace weight, this is going to take awhile to ply…..
Mmmmmmmm, beauteous. Do you have plans for the finished yarn yet?
Yikes!! Center pull ball?!? I tried it once and wound up with a scary snarly mess… though at least one doesn’t wind up with 50 yards on one bobbin and none on the other and a bunch of little knots.
amazing colors! beautiful yarn. Its only gonna get better from here… Good luck plying.
Wow! That’s going to be some gorgeous yarn!
Gorgeous!
You ply from a center pull ball?! I’ve never had any luck with that, I get a tangled mess. I think maybe I’m not so good at ball winding, which contributes to the problem.
I find it easier to ply from two bobbins, altough you always end up with some extra singles on one of them.
those colors are very pretty – not ones you see too often! have fun plying the lace weight! that is a lot of yarn!
great colors, very earthy : )
Very pretty! You really make me want to learn to spin.