A Yarn About Yarn ...

or How Yarn Is Born.

it starts innocently enough with the  purchase  of 8 oz of blue faced leicester roving off of ebay ...

in a colorway called "autumn."  aptly named i'm thinking.

 

(hmmm a good thing to keep in mind...i'm just fluffy...i'm just fluffy ... i'm just fluffy)

after some pre-drafting, we begin with the spinning of singles.

we do our best.  (ever since rhinebeck, j's been encouraging me to practice since he now realizes that i'm not so good a spinner.)

spin spin spin ... over the course of several days.  until we are left with two full bobbins of singles.

a decision is made to ply.  so we shall ply.  let the plying commence.

look at that bobbin go! 

singles are now plied. 

ta-daa!  about 200 yards of worsted/bulky/superbulky 2-plied yarn.   don't mock.  people pay good money for yarn like this.

the end.