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02/22/2006

Beads

The yarn a spun for myself is done. The ruby red merino/silk is sheer heaven. I love it and can not wait to use it for a next to the skin project as it is cuddly soft. I have also been working on more bead yarns.medium_roving_to_yarn_051.jpg I am going to ply the blues together and I am currently spinning some pink/hot pink roving for the other. They turn out very cute but I am going to try doing the next batch differently. I tried it before with no luck but I think I understand what I did wrong before. Guess we will see. The multi colored blue in the picture is the dreaded Faux Cashmere aka nylon. It dyes great and is super soft but I HATE spinning it. It is just a bear to spin. It does not draft easily now matter what you do so I ended up ripping it down to pencil thin strips and still predrafted it. This made it a little better. Why use it you ask? Because I bought a bunch of it online and I hate wasting anything even this evil stuff. I hope to have pictures of both finished yarns tomorrow if life doesn't get in the way.