Sunday, January 06, 2008

I finished spinning and plying the combed suri alpaca yesterday.



I like how it came out, though now that I look at the pictures I think it's a smidge underplied. I may run it through the wheel again and tighten it up a bit.



It's nice and soft, and though it looks hairy, the fiber is fine enough that it's more of a halo. It's a total of 605 yards and 67 grams, approximately 4100 ypp. The singles were ~75 wpi, and the two-ply is ~60 wpi.

I think I'm going to dye this a rich red and use it to weave something. The yarn is quite inelastic and pliable, and should drape beautifully.

6 comments:

Valerie said...

The suri looks nice....I can almost feel it's silkiness!

PJ said...

wow...there is that DIME again...amazing stuff!

cyndy said...

beautiful! the softness translates nicely! yummy!

Caroline M said...

That is lovely. The alpaca was called Ferdinando, I found the details when I was tidying up yesterday.

Cathy said...

Wonderful! I can't wait to see what you do with it.

And love all the fingerless gloves or mitts you are knitting. The colors are delicious.

Leigh said...

Wow, super spinning. Lovely yarn.