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The Next Stage!


Now I realise if I was trying to produce yarn to sell in the shop I would have an enormous production problem!

However, just for a bit of relaxation and a great sense of achievement - here is the next stage. All plied and put onto the niddy noddy - yep you read that right - the niddy noddy.

This contraption is what produces the twist for the skeins. confession though, I must have been in a bad mood on Sunday listening to The Archers (Helen and Rob!) that I went a bit fast and furious and managed to over ply it. I took it all back off and undid it - the wonders of the spinning wheel and ended up with this knittable and scrumptious looking yarn.

All that effort for 100g of yarn.

But it is worth it because not one person in the world will have this apart from me.

I am going to take this to my WI talk at May Hill tonight so that everyone else can ooh and aaah over it. 

Will post what I knit with it eventually - but they do look so nice in the skein after spinning that to knit with it is like cutting a well iced birthday cake. It has to be done but you have to steel yourself!

Back off to the knitted Hungry Caterpillar and a commission for a Millamia Carlotta dress for a highly valued and tasteful customer.