Holly inquired:
><<The plusses--the color (natural gray with strands of mohair in >turquoise and rust). The hand--this stuff is somehow buttery--it's >luxuriously drapey and buttery.>> > >I hope you'll tell us more about the yarn you spun? Was it singles or >plyed? How thick? How much mohair? What sett? Was it a plain twill >or something else? What was the wool like? Do tell more :) Well, it was about 6 years ago and I'm not a note-keeping kind of girl, but here's what I remember. The Finn-Lincoln was quite silky (with the softness of Finn and the luster of Lincoln) . I made a two-ply--I'm guessing about 25 wraps per inch. The mohair was yearling grade and I have a strand of it about every half inch. The sett was 15 epi in a plain 2/2 twill. I ended up with about 5 yards, 22" wide. I did think about just cutting in in half and sewing it together for a blanket, but I like blankets bigger than 44" wide. The coat is on a brief pause because my sewing room is in an outbuilding (which is nice to have a "studio" ) but we never have gotten an electrical upgrade done (it's on the "things to do" list) and while there's enouch electicity to run a sewing machine and get an iron more-or-less hot, there's not enough to run a heater. I'm too lazy to drag all my sewing stuff into the house, and my hands get too cold to hold pins in a room that's only 40 degrees. But cold just doesn't last in Florida so I should be able to finish it this weekend (when I can work on it during the day instead of at night). --Ann To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
