|
 |
"Fool's Gold" is spun from the same superwash merino used in "Dragonfly Dance". It is plied with gold embroidery thread. The name comes from the fact that I had to be a fool, or possibly a screaming idiot, to try to use embroidery thread off a spool to do this. It was awful. Put the spool on something if you try it -- don't think you'll be able to unwind as you ply! The gold thread went a little loopy once the skein was no longer under tension on the bobbin -- even wound off onto a niddy noddy, there wasn't as much tension as there had been while the yarn was being spun. There's a lesson here, but I'm not really sure what it is....
(Before anyone decides to go getting all technical on me, I do know what the lesson is: don't put quite so much tension on things when you're spinning. It's just that I had such a total fight with this one......)
This is one that went up for sale on etsy because frankly, I'm still made at it and don't want to see it again. Pttttthhhhhrrrriiiiiibbbbbt.
Stats: 9-11WPI, 2 Ply w/Metallic, 44 yds, thick/thin character
