I don't usually swatch, but I'm starting a baby project and wanted to perfect this pattern that I'm un-venting. So, I took out my trusty winder (really, winding yarn into center-pull skeins needs to be less fun - NOT.) and found this!
I don't know a lot about spinning, but my hypothesis is this is the leader. How often does this happen? Maybe we could calculate odds, and find out how lucky I am! I'm assuming that this doesn't happen very often.
Oh, the yarn I'm using is this new stuff from Cascade, "Pacific." It is very soft, but sort of has an un-plying problem (anyone that's every used Caron Simply Soft probably knows what I'm describing.) For a merino-acrylic mix, it has the feel of soft acrylic, but blocks out well. Just from one swatch, I like it!
I like to keep my labels with my skeins, so here's a pick of my trick - a label extender - in case you were wondering how I did that. As you work from the middle and the skein gets smaller, just move the tape.
Very interesting. Never seen a leader on commercial yarn before ... but what else could it be!
ReplyDeleteI have this yarn in another color!!!!!!!! It's so awesome!
ReplyDeletegreat tip
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tipe. Happy baby project knitting!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about "unplying". Lion Brand's Microspun is notorious for doing that.
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