An old yarn

I came across a bag of yarn scraps upstairs in the spare/craft room last week as I was puttering around. It is the ends of yarn I spun 10 to 15 years ago! Much of it was also dyed by myself in my Brooklyn backyard.

It was nice to run across this yarn. Not a bad spun yarn if I do say so myself. Most of it is 3-ply as I was heavily into Navajo plying at the time and spun of lot of yarn using that technique. Most of it is also spindle spun. These yarns were spun all over the city, at bus stops, parks, atriums, etc.

So I decided to make something of these scraps, a scarf for winter yard work. Nothing fancy, size 8 needles, just 20 stitches wide, seed stitch because it doesn't curl and looks nice.

I'm glad I ran across this yarn, it reminded me how much spinning I did back then, and like I said, it's a pretty nice yarn. I think I'm going to have to revisit Navajo plying, it's been years.

I did a bobbin's worth of spinning on one of my wheels this week but it was far from successful. I'm trying to figure out the best way to spin a short, soft, lofty mixed fiber. I spun from the fold but ended up with insufficient twist and too many thin spots. I'm out of practice. Today I spun another sample after carding some of the fiber and spinning it long draw. This test looks better and perhaps I will spin another bobbin using that technique this week. Tour de Fleece begins Tuesday but I'm not signed up for it. Not sure I can commit to daily spinning right now.

A visitor last week. Deer are a rare sight on my property.

Yesterday, mama bear and two cubs were out back. Melts my heart...