Fits
Fits and starts, starts and fits.


This is a 3-ply worsted-spun light fingering weight, from Amy Boogie's Almost Solid Merino top in Hyacinth. It feels wonderful, wonderful - I spun three very fine, very firm plies, set them up on storage bobbins, and plied them together with quite a bit more twist than I thought I needed (about 3/4 of the single twist) to get this wonderfully sproingy, squishy, not-at-all-wiry, and yet strong and knittable yarn. Seriously, I wish they'd hurry up and invent squeeze-o-vision already - I want everyone to give it a pinch.
Weight: 110 grams
Yardage: 460 yards/ 420 meters (~ light fingering)
Single WPI: ~45
Plied WPI: ~19
Single TPI: ~20 (unless I'm not figuring this out right - two revolutions of the 15:1 whorl for every 1.5-2" of drafted fiber)
Plied TPI: ~13
Other specs: Worsted-spun three-ply, singles spun from random sections
It took a couple weeks to spin just that four ounces - very busy, losing my mind, yadda yadda yadda - but I suddenly started sampling up a storm, spinning tiny little 7 or 8 gram skeins of everything, just to see:

Clockwise from top left: A sad attempt at a worsted-weight 2-ply Almost Solid Merino in Poppies; sock-weight 3-plys in Handpainted Yarn roving in (from left) Polar, Azul and Sunset; that delicious Blows Smoke from Hello Yarn, in a distressingly bumpy fingering-ish 2-ply; and some more Almost Solid in Juniper Berry, in 2- and 3-ply versions.
For subtly tonal fibers (and purely from a color standpoint), I really like 3-plys. Not Navajo-plied yarns, mind you - they're well and good, of course, but aren't what I'm going for with these - but three separate threads all spun from random sections of fiber. The shades are distributed better, and in the case of something like the Juniper Berry (truly almost-solid), the subtly different tones work a wonderful kind of alchemy and produce a really lively, energetic yarn. Interesting just to look at and to process; demanding a closer look, and then one closer still. Good stuff.
















Comments
So beautiful. I am so impressed with how even your spinning is. I, obviously, need practice!
Posted by: meg | September 18, 2006 12:20 PM
I agree. Your spinning is fantastic...
Posted by: jennifer | September 18, 2006 12:39 PM
I try and try and I can seem to get a good dk/fingering weight yarn! I am jealous! ;-) It's very beautiful. Oh and your sock is beautiful too. It looks embossed.
Posted by: beth | September 18, 2006 12:41 PM
I'm waiting for squeeze-o-vision too, the way you describe it! All your yarns are really beautifull and I will try 3 ply to distribute colours, I find my 2ply is a bit splotchy sometimes. Your links to those beautiful shops will be the death of my credit card :)
Posted by: Laurence | September 18, 2006 12:45 PM
I like what you did with the juniper berry. I am trying to get to the point of separating out shades within a roving and spinning them together. It's just time-consuming, you know? So much easier to just spin straight off the batt.
Posted by: Martha | September 18, 2006 12:52 PM
JEEZ! Beautiful stuff! It looks like you've been spinning for years and years. How do you do it?!
Posted by: Cara | September 18, 2006 12:55 PM
Oh! That lavender is so deliciously candy-cane like. I love it.
Posted by: emily | September 18, 2006 01:05 PM
You have no idea how badly I want to buy a spinning wheel now! When you first began spinning, I hunted down my "spindle" I made in my fiber-arts class- a dowel, two rubber bands, a blank CD, and a screw-hook. Let's just say my results were not as spectacular as yours, Eunny.
Posted by: C | September 18, 2006 01:18 PM
Like a flower garden of spun yarn. I want a wheel too. If I were you, I'd be almost reluctant to knit with the yarn, and tempted to make it a permanent display in my living room :)
Posted by: wavybrains | September 18, 2006 01:46 PM
wow - absolutely gorgeous, all of it. :) If you knit up swatches, send pics of those too - I love how all the yarn looks in the skeins, and I always wonder how it will look knitted :)
Posted by: Meg | September 18, 2006 01:51 PM
gorgeous! its eye candy friday everyday on your blog!
Posted by: shoofly | September 18, 2006 01:51 PM
Juniper and Sunset are stunning...don't you just love Amy Boogie?!
I really like your 3-ply. We really can see how squishy it is in the photo.
Posted by: jessica~ | September 18, 2006 01:59 PM
Wow, those are some nice colors, relaxing to the eyes!
Posted by: O | September 18, 2006 01:59 PM
Wow, all of these yarns are so beautiful. I especially love the hyacinth and that yellow one.
Posted by: Crystal | September 18, 2006 02:37 PM
The Hyacinth is absolutely gorgeous, just love the colors. And I just saw the sock .. wow just wow
:)
Posted by: Banditgirl | September 18, 2006 02:37 PM
You've got spinning in your blood, it's incredible!
Posted by: Fleur | September 18, 2006 02:46 PM
OH how I love the Hyacinth... all the colours are beautiful, but that Hyancinth, sumptuous...
Posted by: Liz | September 18, 2006 02:54 PM
It's not fair, you knit AND spin beautifully!
I'm so glad you let us all gape at your creations!
Posted by: Lynn | September 18, 2006 03:46 PM
It ALL looks so wonderful, more so b/c it's hand spun. Hmmm, could "Eunny's Yarns" be near?
Posted by: Terry | September 18, 2006 03:51 PM
The yarn is gorgeous...it's tempting me to learn to spin. But I do have a "no stash" policy that would be pretty impossible to keep if I spun...hmmm. How do you handle storage?
Posted by: Alexis | September 18, 2006 03:56 PM
You're getting really good at spinning, eveything looks great. And that new sock design is just beautiful.
Posted by: Carin | September 18, 2006 04:02 PM
Lovely, gorgeous spinning!
Posted by: Jennifer | September 18, 2006 04:39 PM
Just lovely! You wouldn't be working yourself into a line of handspun yarn, now would you?
Posted by: Ruth | September 18, 2006 05:14 PM
The Juniper Berry really caught my eye. You said it so well about seeing something that beckons you to look closer. I am all for squeeze-o-vision!! I am a yarn squisher, toucher, and put it against my neck type.
Posted by: Punkin | September 18, 2006 05:18 PM
Good stuff indeed. Your spinning is just gorgeous.
Posted by: Stephanie | September 18, 2006 05:42 PM
Not surprising -- your spinning is beautiful, too -- I love the hyacinth! Oh - and the Bayerische socks are great!
Posted by: janna | September 18, 2006 06:25 PM
Hi Eunny. I have commented before but never introduced myself. I am Penny and I knit easy things and appreciate complex ones. So here's the comment: It's always such a pleasure to come to your site and see what you've done. I love the green socks from yesterday's post. You never disappoint, and I have not yet seen you hit a wrong note. Keep knitting!
Posted by: Penny | September 18, 2006 06:39 PM
Eunny, you are doing (as my mother would say) the devil's work - here I am, maintaining with steely determination my intention not to learn how to spin until I've made serious dents in my yarn and fabric stashes and what do I see? Glorious colours, beautiful fibres and a wonderful 'what if I do this..?' attitude.
Thanks for the Bayerische socks, as well. My fingers are itching to make a start on those.
Posted by: Iona | September 18, 2006 08:55 PM
You greedy little bugger, you!! How dare you take so many creative genes and leave ME with so few!! Can I adopt you? Or maybe marry you off to one of my sons (23 & 27)!!
Posted by: Marsha | September 19, 2006 12:20 AM
The purple skein is so beautiful. Maybe once I am out of grad school I can aspire to making my own beautiful yarn.
Posted by: Kat | September 19, 2006 09:02 AM
Beautiful spinning! I love watching your projects evolve - thanks for sharing them!
As for twist per inch (TPI), this is usually measured by placing the yarn on a ruler and counting the number of times a single fiber revolves around the yarn (twists) in a given length (inch). While you may be intending it to have a particular TPI, there's usually a different measured TPI because of what's added during wind-on to the bobbin and removed during wind-off to make the skein. And then the yarn relaxes when you wash it, so it again loses some of that intended TPI. Essentially, you make note of how you spun it and the result after all the finishing, too. Then you'll really be learning what you'll get when you spin in a particular manner.
Happy spinning!!
Posted by: historicstitcher | September 19, 2006 09:33 AM
Beautiful colorway and wonderful spinning job!
Posted by: Alison | September 19, 2006 11:53 AM
Squeeze-o-vision? What a great concept, and not just for yarn — think of all the cute kitten pictures.
Posted by: B. | September 19, 2006 12:03 PM
I'll happily take that purple off your hands. You weren't going to use it anyway, were you?
And I definitely think squeeze-o-vision would be better than smell-o-vision.
Posted by: PuppyMomma | September 19, 2006 02:09 PM
I believe that is the most beautiful yarn I have ever seen in my life.
Seriously.
You work is awe-inspiring.
Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Miss Dottie | September 20, 2006 04:36 PM
Love all the colors! Just beautiful!
Posted by: Cathy | September 20, 2006 11:16 PM
Oh, I love the purple yarn! It's gorgeous. And the Bayerische socks are very nice. I may have to try them...
Posted by: Nicole | September 21, 2006 03:38 PM
I take comfort in knowing that my Blows Smoke looks like your Blows Smoke!
They are so beautiful, especially the Hyacinth!
Posted by: Jennifer | September 22, 2006 08:21 AM
I gotta say that I like 3-ply much better than a 2-ply yarn anytime. I'm not sure why.. it just feels so much nicer, and makes for a round yarn, that knits up well for stitch definition. I too like a lot of twist in my yarns; I do almost all of them on a CD spindle. I do have a couple of wheels, and do use them a couple times a year, but my spindle goes with me wherever I go! And it does the work, so what more can I ask?!! Love your colours! And Merino -- well, that is all you need to say!
Posted by: Tallguy | September 24, 2006 02:36 PM
The yarn is beautiful - and made even more so by your photography work!
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Hey Miss Eunny, where are you?? Should we be worried? Don't you know having a life is no excuse for abandoning your faithful blog readers?
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