Spinning in the New Year!
I've been doing some playing on the spinning wheel this year. At some point I got a fiber sampler kind of thing from Hipstrings. It has about an ounce each of six different tops, all from their sparkly, unicorn based colorways. They are all slightly different fibers, but all of them have merino and some sparkles. Some have a bit of silk or viscose or alpaca too. I'm spinning each sample onto a single bobbin (a single bobbin for each sample, not one bobbin with all of them), and I'll chain ply them. I'm spinning the singles between 40-50 wraps per inch so I should get a fingering weight finished yarn. There might be some differences due to the different fiber content, but they should be fairly similar. I think. Who knows? This is exciting!
The first sample is Unicorn Seeks Soulmate. Here is the fiber.
And here are the singles.
Next was Unicorn Dance Party II (which implies there was a Unicorn Dance Party I, which I was not invited to). The fiber.
The singles.
Narwhal Pool Party was the third sample. Here is the fiber (which looks a lot like the singles from Unicorn Dance Party II, above.)
And the singles, which spun up much darker than I was expecting.
The fourth sample is Space Unicorn (do you think they're friends with Pigs In Space?). Only the fiber for this one, it's on the wheel now.
There are two more samples after Space Unicorn and I'm going to spin all of the singles before I start plying. I don't have any definite plans for the yarns, I'm just enjoying playing with them. Also, I should add that I'm not sure that all of these are currently available, because I bought this a couple of years ago and I'm just now getting to it.
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