All, VERBOSE: ON I spun up some kid mohair, a couple of years ago. I dyed it fabulous shades (if I do say so myself <g>) of blue, yellow, deep corals and all shades in between. I'd combed it. So I had nice thin singles, then I decided to spin up the combings, because I thought it would make an interesting designer yarn. I wound up plying the two singles together. Then I was going to make the beret that someone mentioned on this list. I like the looks so well, I decided it would be wasted on a beret, frogged what I'd done, and went for socks. I used both ends of the ball, knitting a sock from each end. Neither sock looks like the other, but they match, if that makes any sense. I've completed the heel, and am in the boring process of just knitting until I get to the toes. Alas, I was overly optimistic on my yarn supply. I'm running out of yarn. I had a ball of really skinny plied yarn, from the same batch of dyed mohair. I had some unspun mohair, that was mostly coral, with all the shades in between. I spun up the coral mohair, and plied it with the already plied dyed mohair. I could have sworn that I read somewhere, sometime on this list, that it was possible to ply a singles yarn with an already plied yarn. I tried that. It didn't seem to work for me. At least, I didn't get a yarn that I thought I was going to get. I got a yarn that's really interesting to look at. I'm not unhappy with it at all. The already plied yarn wrapped around the single in a strange pattern: there's three wraps very close together, then a space of about .25 -.5", where the single show thru, then 3 wraps very close together, etc. I think the space will felt up, since it's going to be used from the heel down. Is this the way it's supposed to ply? Did I imagine reading about being able to ply a single with an already double plied yarn? Am I losing it? !pleH wrnk d2 To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
