All these things that I've done

[stitchy_stitchy]

The full output for the Tour de Fleece - not too bad considering I basically sat the first week and a half out. Sum total is: 200 grams of Romney, singles, total about 420 yards (half of it is skeined on the photo, the other half is on the niddy-noddy), plus some quantity of silk hankies still on the spindle.

I keep deciding I hate the Romney yarn, and then changing my mind when I look at it from another angle. I'm considering striping it with some other yarn in my scarf - maybe something that goes through a greyscale on a fairly short repeat. I know how to dye such a thing myself (and also one that would go through a gradient from light to dark over the whole skein), but I also wonder if my color sense is bad enough that I should be restricted to semi-solids if I do my own dyeing in the future.

Speaking of silk...





Folded up in the bag, the hankies looked a bit more "fire engine" than the picture shows (the picture has very accurate color), but I really like this. The one act of utter folly involved in the spinning was to do it on a spindle with a carved shaft. Bad idea. High potential for crazy-making. If I do silk hankies again I'll borrow Daughter's small spindle, which is largely equivalent but has a smooth shaft.

FWIW, if I had to sum up the trade-offs between silk hankies and top, it would be this: it's easier to handle the top, but it's easier for a beginner to get fairly precise, if not necessarily absolutely smooth, yarn with the hankies.