Lamb and Frog

I was once asked “How did you learn so much about computers…did you take a bunch of classes or something?” “No,” I responded, “I’ve just broken them in every way possible to do so and had to fix them myself.” Some lessons just don’t sink in unless you learn them the hard way. For example, [...]

I have been a flying pool. Oh! Wait. In the immortal words of Willy Wonka (the Gene Wilder version) “strike that, reverse it.” I have been a plying fool. In more ways than one.
I plied probably 400 yards of merino (I haven’t counted yet). This fiber was originally in a colorway called ‘ice cream before [...]

This post is gonna be long and rather boring technical. It will, however, have lots of pictures. It describes the steps involved in plying and finishing handspun yarn. Read it, you might learn something.
Notes:

This post is not meant as a highly technical ‘how-to’ on plying. It is, as the title says, ‘an overview’. It is [...]

I guess I sort of left you all hanging since my last post. Well, for starters, I got all that yarn plied. All. Of. It. Three days, three batches. I am planning on selling at least two of them. The other one I am either going to use or put up for grabs—I’m still thinkin’ [...]

For tomorrow–

We ply! What we have here is two small bobbins’ worth of 1) blue-faced Leicester in the ‘highways and byways’ colorway from the Sanguine Gryphon and purchased (by my mom for me for Christmas, mom don’t suck) at The Loopy Ewe; 2) an 80% Peruvian wool/ 20% alpaca blend hand-dyed by Dagmar [...]