Hand spun yarn.

You guys...I made yarn!

 

I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that you can take fluff and twist it into yarn. Amazing.

 

I am so excited about this...can you tell? :)

I tried Andean plying to make my practice single into a two-ply. I used this video, but I couldn't really see how she was wrapping the yarn around her hand, so this diagram helped a lot.

Here's my yarn compared to some hand-spun I bought recently at the Ferrum festival.

It's very inconsistent, as you can see. {What do they call yarn that is uneven on purpose? Art yarn? Novelty yarn? Yeah, that's definitely the look I was going for here. :)} But I'm just thrilled that it basically looks like yarn. I know you can knit with singles, but I always think of yarn as at least two-ply.

This is just a tiny bit, not enough yards to make anything. But it's just for practice, so that's okay. I'm planning on treating it exactly like I would a larger amount of yarn, setting the twist and all.

Until next time,