Raspberry Spinning, Finished!

I have finished plying the Raspberry yarn!  I started spinning the singles in May and started plying in August.  Considering that we got Newton in June (who is definitely not yet spinning trained, but we're working on it), and moved Caleb into his dorm in August (and have since evacuated him twice for storms - yes, he's home again right now), I think I did pretty well!

I started with 717 grams of fiber.  I don't know the exact fiber content, but it seemed to be a mix of fine and medium wools with some kid mohair carded in as well.  I ended up with 2,272 yards of a 3-ply yarn and 50 yards of chain plied yarn, for a total of 2,322 yards of yarn.  Right now it looks about sportweight, but it hasn't been washed yet and there might be some floof-age after washing.  I might have more of a DK weight yarn when all is said and done.

Today's big adventure will be to wash it.  I'll probably do it in two batches because there's kind of a lot of it.  (That's Fifi underneath it all that you can't see.)  It's raining here today (it's actually Tropical Storm Beta that's causing the rain here - in North Texas), so drying it will take some time, but the rains are supposed to move on this afternoon, so that should help.  I'll get a close up shot after it's all washed and finished.  I can't wait to get the yarn all finished and knit up a swatch!