Rosebud Yarn

I plied the Rosebud yarn (Corriedale from May's Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club) and tossed it in the washer to finish it and full it. Yes, I did agitate it some (I stood right there by it - for emotional support I guess). By fulling the finished yarn, it encourages the yarn to fluff up and bloom, making a loftier yarn than you would otherwise have. There's a great article on fulling finished yarn in a recent Spin Off magazine by Judith MacKenzie McCuin. Just be careful - if you try to full a longwool, you will end up with felted yarn, so make sure that your wool is something to full before you start.

I'm really happy with the yarn. I forgot to double check wraps per inch, but at a guess, it's slightly larger than worsted and I got over 300 yards of it. Remember how I stripped the roving lengthwise and kept the colors in order so I could have the yarn shift colors across all three plies at approximately the same time? Yeah, that didn't really happen. I ended up with a LOT more singles on one bobbin and the whole color shift thing turned into a festival of barber poling, but for some reason I'm not upset about this - the finished yarn makes me really happy! I probably should have rewound the bobbins of singles so I could have started plying with the beginning ends of the singles, where the colors would have matched up perfectly, but that sounds like way too much work for a spinning project that was purely for fun.

Have a great weekend!

Oh and to Anonymous who is trying to sign up for MS3 and mentioned in the comments that the group doesn't exist- that was last years Mystery Stole KAL and it closed to new sign ups in July of 2007. If you were a member of MS3 and can't find it, I sent out Special Notice emails saying I was going to close the group in May, then forgot to close it, so I decided to close it June 15, sent out another Special Notice email to that effect, and actually closed the group earlier this week. No official dates for MS4 yet -stay tuned.