using handspun singles in combination with commercial yarns -- plied together on a spinning wheel -- creates new and exciting yarns!
this is the "soy silk" i have been spinning with my drop spindle. strong, soft, shiny. drink it up. when i wet it, to set its twist, it smells like dry ramen noodles.
combine it with some of the wild silk from
habu textiles
that kathy, on an arbitrary and despotic rampage of cruelty, gave me (it is nearly impossible to do anything with alone, regardless of how gorgeous it is)...
... and you get this! i have no idea what to do with it...
here's what i got when using the same wild silk, plied with some samples of black hemp that i had lying around and about which i was feeling rather equivocal. this, i believe, will be a lightweight moebius.
remember my recent party-train wool single ?
when plied with commercial lopi...
... and then felted, you get something entirely new! and expensive looking, i must say.