{"id":1108,"date":"2009-12-28T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2009-12-20T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:09:10","slug":"spinning-laceweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/28\/spinning-laceweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning laceweight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well at least it is a bit thinner than 4ply, and I am intending to knit lace with it \ud83d\ude42 It isn’t as thin as some laceweight, but then laceweight is a bit of a vague term anyway.<\/p>\n

This started off life as two balls of Schoppel Wolle Fingerwolle, in the Fuschia colour, bought from the High Weald Fibre Factory<\/a> at Wonderwool Wales<\/a> (the stuff on the left of the picture).<\/p>\n

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There was 40m on each ball of combed fibre about the thickness of a finger (hence the name). You can also knit with it as it is on 8 – 9 mm knitting needles or spin it (or you could probably felt it too). The colour changes are very gradual, although it turned out that the two balls I picked weren’t at exactly the same place in the sequence, so when I plied my two singles together I have got quite a few bits where one ply is orange and the other purple.<\/p>\n

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The effect of the colours is muted quite a bit by the plying (I did a 2ply). I am looking forward to knitting this up and seeing how the colours go. I think you will still get the colour progression effect, just not as striking as it was before spinning.<\/p>\n

I have 450m and 100g, and this is the thinnest I have managed to spin so far. I am very proud \ud83d\ude42 even though it is still a bit wobbly, but I am improving. I think I am going to knit some kind of a lacey shawl but haven’t decided on a pattern yet, I shall continue to keep my eye out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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