First Spinning (2014)

Fibre: Blue faced Leicester (BFL)
Method: Drop spindle
Completed: August 30, 2014.

I posted a blog post with my first efforts at spinning with the drop spindle and then plying. This was the first effort in creating yarn I might actually use. I was aiming for a sock weight result, and missed it pretty completely. I can't spin singles that are fine enough (yet). But, it was fun! And, I wound up with about 3.3oz of yarn -- most of it 3-ply, some of it 2-ply. Not sure what I'll do with it, but I have to say: even though the yarn itself has a fairly rugged, I have to keep petting it and squooshing it... it's my yarn!

	2-ply knit up at 7st, 9rows to an inch on 2.25mm needles.
	3-ply knit up at 5st, 8rows to an inch on 3.25mm needles. (That's the top part of the swatch. I have lost track of what I knit the lower part on).
	Weighing in...
	Re-purposed tools! I put the spindle in a wide shoebox (with holes cut into it) to hold it while I wound the yarn off into a skein. And, while plying, I used my knitting machine's quadruple yarn holder with tensioned guides to hold the 3 plies!

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