The fiber for this spin came from deep-ish stash; I\u2019ve had it for almost two years. This Allons-Y! Fiber Arts<\/a> colorway was named Donna Reed. The fiber content is a lovely soft blend of 50% superwash merino, 25% baby alpaca, and 12% each of tussah silk and nylon for strength.<\/p> I broke the fiber in half (not lengthwise) into two lengths of 72 and 73 grams respectively. Then I split each half into three narrower strips. I spun two bobbins beginning at the green end and matching end colors from there. Then, I plied the two bobbins together. After finishing, I ended up with a little over 440 yards of 14-15 WPI yarn.<\/p> I really love the soft, summery colors in this fiber. Partway through spinning, I looked up and realized that the colors flowing through my fingers exactly matched the print on my wall! Alphonse Mecha’s \u00c9clat du Jour<\/em> is one of a series of 4 panels he painted in 1899 to depict the times of the day. This print is one of my favorites and was given to me by a dear friend. As soon as I get around to knitting the socks (I am considering Joji Locatelli’s Beachgrass Socks<\/a>), I’ll be able to wear the Light of Day on my feet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Orig pub: 2022\/03\/11 I’ve been knitting more socks this year and really love making them with handspun. Normally I’d spin a sturdy, twisty 3-ply for socks, but since I only had a little over 5 oz of fiber, I spun this as a 2-ply so I’d have enough yarn. I decided to spin it on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145139087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145139087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145139087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145139087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145139087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145139087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistedskeins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145139087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/640cfd55-f9cc-480c-8762-d3790bef0ac9_222x300.jpeg\")
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