2-plied it measures in at around 30 WPI. It looks silky (it's 80% merino, 20% silk) very thin and nice and consistent. I'm very very pleased!
After plying the first two bobbins of singles, making skeins and doing some maths I found that I had about 880 yards (from 130g). It's difficult to know for sure how much is needed for the pattern but I've plumped for 1200 yards and so I settled down to spin half as much again.
Which I've just finished. This is my 1200 yards of merino/silk, the finest I've made and the most I've spun in one go too.
These are small skeins (100 turns each = 166 yards) Next step is the dye bath and I want to make sure that the dye can get to all of the yarn.
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See! I knew I didn't stand a chance. A couple of weeks later and you've spun that much. I'll keep plodding on with 100g silk I got 2 years ago....
he hee! I hate to think how many hours I've put in to finish this.
That's a whole lotta spinning and one good thing is I noticed that I was working more and more quickly. That last 300-odd yards took a few hours yesterday and a few more today.
You mentioned you might be knitting the same pattern from bought yarn - will we be knitting along together?
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