This week was my last spinning class! I have officially graduated from spinning school. As my teacher put it, I am now her textile daughter. For our last few classes I learned how to ply. The picture above is my recipe card for the skein pictured. On the left is what the single looks like (yarn that has been spun but not plied) and the right has my samples of different plying: (from the top) 4-ply cable, 2-ply, Navajo 3-ply, and 4-ply basic. I ended up making the skein with the Navajo 3-ply and I think it turned out great. It's really fun to see all of my spinning work start to form itself into skeins of beautiful yarn. I still have a lot of the green yarn that I've been posting pictures of to ply and I will post pictures as soon as I do it.
I was so grateful of my spinning lessons that I had a whorl made especially for my teacher from 2 Cranes. It turned out wonderful. I was able to pick the piece of turquoise I wanted it made from and the piece I picked was from the Kingman Mine in Arizona. I think JoAnn really liked it. I'm sad to see my classes end, but excited to start spinning for future knitting projects and learn how to dye with natural dyes from Janet at Lofty's on 60. More projects to come soon...
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