Posting in advance... woooo!!!
As this arrives publically on the Interwebs, I will just about be arriving in Cockermouth, avec parents, to visit the utterly inimitable (though there have been attempts) Woolfest!
I had hoped, before I left, to finish the Noro-like spinning experiment. Well... I have spun one bobbin full of singles, and a second is on the wheel:
The singles are looking a lot like genuine Noro singles, too:
The biggest question in my mind is: how are the singles brought together to look so much like a single ply? Normally, the two plies of a yarn do not merge into each other so well as they do in Noro Kureyon, which I think is the single biggest reason people have for failing to believe it's a two-ply. It just *looks* so much like a single. The ply angle on Kureyon is very shallow, so it is only lightly plied; I think the singles must be correspondingly lightly spun, but how that can be done without the wheel pulling them apart, I don't know. It will be very interesting to see how my plied yarn stacks up.
I'm finding this really fascinating.
If you succeed in this, you'll never buy Noro again!
Posted by: Geodyne | June 29, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Must go and look at my Noro stash more closely! I hope you'll write about Woolfest?
Posted by: Dot | June 30, 2009 at 09:59 PM