I was swatching to find out how many stitches I was getting with the 2-ply Charcoal merino, and the results after knitting the swatch were far from what I had imagined, liked, or hoped for!
Remember this was the fibre:
- Charcoal merino from Milana Buenos Aires
And this was the single I spun:
- Single of the charcoal merino
Now... this is the result after doing a 2-ply of 2 of those singles:
- 2-ply of charcoal merino
Not SO ugly, huh? Wait to see the knitted swatch. Here it is:
- 2-ply swatch
Really... I'm not kidding you. it is all bumpy and more for felting or the trash can, than for a sweater.
Now, I also swatched the single, and there, my world stopped spinning around me, and I was able to breath normally again:
- Swatch of the charcoal merino single
So this is it... I think I will try to unply the full jumbo bobbin I have with the 2-ply, to get 2 singles again, then finish off spinning all the fibre, give it a good wash in Eucalan, and rethink the project I will be knitting it into.
Moral of the story: it was a good way to learn that not all pretty singles will look great as 2-ply if you screw up plying!
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