Friday, June 11, 2010

Navajo plying left over singles

I had some left over single ply Colonial Wedgewood Blue on a bobbin and really needed to empty up some bobbins for future spinning. I figured that I'd do a little Navajo plying with this yarn, since I hadn't Navajo plied in a long time.
So I put an empty bobbin on my spinning wheel and tied one end of the Colonial Wedgewood Blue Single to my leader. Then I made a slip knot and started treadling and continued making some slip knots as the new yarn twisted and wound onto the empty bobbin. Each slip not I made was fairly long and made what now looked like 3 plys of yarn together being twisted into a nice yarn. This picture here is what the yarn looked like after I was finished and had washed it.
When I was finished with the Colonial Wedgewood Blue Navajo plied yarn, I pulled out a bobbin with some Dark Coopworth left on it and started Navajo plying it. This picture here is what the yarn looked like after I was finished and had washed it. Now I have 2 more empty bobbins that I can use for future spinning.
I have some other colored singles that I might Navajo ply to empty up some more bobbins. There won't be as much yarn to use like these skeins have, but I can still use each small amount to make some that would be multi-colored.

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