{"id":872,"date":"2012-07-02T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2012-07-02T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T03:00:08","slug":"tour-de-fleece-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Fleece – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I chose to start my Tour de Fleece spinning with the SW Corriedale in David’s Gift. I’ve gotten the bobbin about half full, and it’s all orange. When I stopped spinning this afternoon, I had just begun to see a little of the brown creeping in. I’m a little worried about how I’m spinning it – sometimes I think I’m going too thick and other times, too thin. I have a Spinner’s Control Card somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find it. Normally, I wouldn’t worry too much about the thickness variation because I’d be plying it, and most of the time it all blends together. Since this is destined to be singles, I won’t have a second ply to balance it out. I think I’m just psyching myself out a little cause I keep thinking it’s a good weight if I were to ply it as a laceweight, but I want this to be a laceweight without plying.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is I don’t usually spin singles yarn. \u00a0I jumped in without thinking about the thickness much at all other than knowing I want laceweight. \u00a0For this single to be laceweight all on it’s own, it needs to be a bit thicker that I normally spin the singles for a plied laceweight. \u00a0But when I spin that way, some part of my brain tells me I’m spinning too thick and I back off.<\/p>\n

I guess I’ll just need to trust my fingers and understand that I can work with whatever the end result is. \u00a0I am spinning this for a shawl after all and that means that a little thicker will simply give me a slightly larger shawl, which can be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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