first completed navajo ply!
i really don’t care for the look of 3-ply yarns, but i understand the need for them, and the fact that some fibers and some colorways just need to be 3-ply. splitting up my fibers across 3 bobbins, then trying to spin them perfectly and ply that way seems kind of silly, so instead of using my (new, awesome) tensioned lazy kate for that, i decided to use it to navajo ply my first full yarn.
i’ve only ever tried to do it twice before, with the extra singles from a couple bobbins, and they came out terribly because i really needed tension. now that i have it, i just went for it last night, and although there are some weird little coils and beehives throughout, i think the final yarn came out really nice. right? for a first try!
so like, i don’t plan on doing it very often, but i just think it’s responsible of me, as a spinner, to at least know how to be able to do it. there are two other bobbins i started long long ago that i will navajo ply, and after those, i don’t see much of it in my future.
in other news, the cats are getting along well. snooki still growls sometimes, but it’s brief and there’s not much passion in it. i think nick is trying to get her to play, because i had this little catnip chicken toy in a box in the basement (he was afraid of it for ages), but the other night i went downstairs and it was on the complete opposite side of the room. today, i went down there and he was loafy, with the toy right in front of him, and she was loafing a few feet away from him. i don’t know if that’s progress or just a coincidence, but i like to be optimistic.
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