Beth Skwarecki

The yarn on the right is a 3-ply (navajo ply) yarn that I spun a while back. I still had a bunch of the fiber left over - about half - so recently I spun it up. It was coming out pretty thick, and I wasn't sure what I would do with so much bulky yarn. Then I got the crazy idea of using it as a singles (unplied) yarn.

I had only spun a few yards when I got the idea, so I took the singles off the bobbin, kept it under tension so it wouldn't snarl into a big mass, and washed it to set the twist, drying with a soup can weighing it down. It turns out I had enough to make a pair of fingerless mitts based on Miriam's Ice Princess mitts. (I used dog fur in place of angora. Oh, and Chris has some hang-up about princesses, so he prefers to call them my "warrior queen mitts".)

Anyhow, it turned out great! So I spun up the rest of the fiber as a singles. I didn't actually wash the kool-aid out of the wool before I spun it, so it wasn't the best prepared stuff I've ever worked with. But I wasn't going for any particular result, just playing around. I spun it up quickly, and I have a very ... unique yarn.

Both skeins are around 200 grams. The singles is 538 yards; I forget the yardage of the 3-ply, but I expect it's about 1/3 of that. The singles is about a sport weight, on average. What should it become?