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"Popsickle" and "Sticky Fingers" are coordinating yarns. "Popsickle" is spun from a hand-dyed (not by me) orange corriedale batt that I picked up at the Renegade craft faire in chicago. It's actually the leftovers from "Sticky Fingers". It's a navajo (3) plied yarn.
"Sticky Fingers" is the corriedale, plied with natural hemp. I'd never tried to spin hemp before. I've read that it's spun just like flax, which I'm assuming is more helpful to those who know how to spin flax. Um.... I've seen it done. In woodcuts. Not so helpful, eh? Hemp is oddly sticky. Not sticky like tacky, but it does sort of stick to your fingers. Beyond that, it feels like you're spinning straw. Very, very thin straw, but straw nonetheless. It's not precisely unpleasant, but it's wasn't precisely nice either. I think I'll hold off on the entire family of bast fibers until I get a better handle on the phrase, "spins just like flax". Hrmph. (Caveat: bamboo and ramie are exempted from this ban, by virtue of feeling totally different.) The ply is deliberately unbalanced, so that the yarn had a more predominant orange in some places than in others.
"Popsickle" Stats: 6-8 WPI, 3 (navajo) ply , 26 yds, thick/thin character
"Sticky Fingers" Stats: 8-10 WPI, 2 ply, 70 yds, thick/thin character and deliberately unbalanced ply
