Poly Yarn

Remember those two yarns I showed you in the last post? When I initially spun them I had visions of plying them together into one epic yarn. But the more I looked at them, the more I fell in love with each of them as individuals. Before I start waxing poetic about yarn, let me explain what you are seeing below. You see, after you spin a yarn, you have to set the twist. I mean, you don't HAVE to, but I think it creates a more balanced yarn? I should probably read up on that. Point is, I'm sort of cheap and very thrifty. In order to set a twist, you have to soak the yarn in warm water, and then stretch it out and set it (that's what she said....). This involves our favorite physics force...

GRAVITY! Sure gravity plays favorites (RIP Dresden Dolls), but it works excellently for setting a twist. What you do is put something heavy on the bottom and the heaviest things I own that easily attach to my yarn are...

 Boots. Lovely expensive boots.

These boots are probably the most expensive thing I own. Long ago in a life far far away, I worked in retail. Retail is probably the worst job anyone could do. If you need to torture someone, I would suggest making them work retail. Anyways, one of the good things about my time working in a dark pit of despair was that I got 50% off really expensive shoes, which is why I bought those boots.

Super exciting right? But yea, they are excellent at setting twist.

After having that hanging in my closet for a couple weeks, I was falling more and more in love with each of them. I mean one was multi-colored and a little shiny and beautiful.

And who am I to make it share it's pretty with an equally gorgeous but slightly less flashy soft cousin?

So I'm thinking of keeping them as singles and loving them both at the same time. I may have an idea to showcase the pretty for both of them. Stay tuned!