It has been years since I last spun any yarn, literally! My Mother actually found my membership card for the New Forest Association of Guilds we joined for Saturday social spinning in 1994!
Bizarrely, I recently found the last yarn I spun over 20 years ago stashed at the back of a draw!
I’m definitely going to have to try washing this and, assuming it doesn’t fall apart, make something with it :o)
Back then I didn’t really knit or crochet or have anything to do with the yarn I created. As fun as it was, the process stopped there.
Recently my parents came to visit and my Mother turned up with her Ashford Traveller wheel for me to try out and see if I still enjoyed spinning. The answer was a resounding yes! :o)
So much so I apparently wanted to start writing a blog again to share my creations :o)
My first yarn was rather lumpy, bumpy and very bulky! But I had just enough to make a little scarf! :o)
From floof to finished item was incredibly satisfying :o) So much so that I quickly ordered more merino tops and began my experimentation blanket. A simple granny stripe blanket I can use all my crazy attempts on, in purple ;o)
My most interesting discovery so far is that when I crocheted I was undoing the ply in my yarns and in fact I need to spin “backwards”. So now I spin my singles anticlockwise and my plying is done clockwise and the newer yarn remains nicely plied as I crochet :o)
The left of the photo shows the new rows where the yarn stays plied whereas on the right you can see that the 2 plies end up just sitting next to one another. Interesting and useful to know! :o)