#i also finished skein 1 of the jacob sock yarn and then took a quick break to do this sampling

[milkweedman]

got around to sampling the stuff i dyed earlier. it's all more green than my phone camera could pick up (no matter what lighting i took the picture in, it always just looks off white)

the bleached linen turned out slightly darker than natural linen, but it's also definitely harder to spin than undyed linen. I'm gonna try abrading it some more at some point to see if that helps. wet spun and then andean plied.

the cormo is chain plied, which was a nightmare. i think i still want it to be 3 ply when i spin it up for the sweater, but it looks like its gonna have to be traditional 3-ply. i dunno. i generally feel like 2 ply is enough for fair isle, and down wool doesn't usually pill as much as other breeds, but i don't want to spend months dyeing and spinning and knitting only to have a sweater that pills like crazy and 3 ply seems a lot safer.

the last one is cotton thread, which i think was the most successful thing i put in the dye pot. again, it really doesn't come thru in the picture, but it's a variegated olive and white that looks really cool. also, I've never spun cotton thread before, and I'm both pleased that its actual usable thread with consistent diameter, and in awe of people who regularly do it. cotton is SO MUCH harder to make thread out of than any other material I've tried.