The finished yarn softened up beautifully, considering it's Romney/Border Leicester. It's not next-to-the-skin soft, but perfect for a sweater.
I thought I had 8 oz of this wool, but it turns out I have 12.9 oz. I'm not sure where I came up with the number 8, since the bag doesn't have any markings on it. Perhaps I was hallucinating, what with the excitement of the new carder arriving...
Anyway:
12.9 oz
675 yards
833 yards per pound
10-12 wraps per inch
3-ply
I had a semi-plan to combine this with the Tunis I spun in January 2008, and knit a yoked sweater. It wasn't a full-blown plan, because I didn't even look at the Tunis yarn or check my blog archive or anything for the grist or wpi on the Tunis. I just sat down and spun relaxing yarn, and left it to fate whether the Romney/Border Leicester yarn would be remotely the same as the Tunis. I did remember it was 3-ply, and slightly heavier than my default yarn.
Turns out I was spot on. When I went back in my archive to get the link for this post, I discovered that the Tunis is also 10-12 wpi, and 833 ypp.
How the heck did that happen?
2 comments:
I was going to leave this as a comment in your blog. But it has turned out longer than I intended, so I am posting it on my blog. I think you will find it interesting
http://tinyurl.com/az5wgr
Maybe you have more than one default setting. It is a lovely colour and the extra 50% must have been a real bonus for you.
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