Lamb and Frog

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 [...]

Rednecks are born, not made. Try as I might to pass as a bona fide liberal treehugger, I’ll never be 100% successful. Sooner or later my red neck starts to show–the guns, the desire to trade in the VW wagon for a V8 Mustang or a big ol’ Caddy (we already have the truck), the food [...]

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’ [...]