If I can spin 100% Silk yarns then spinning another braid of Faux Cashmere should be a breeze. I've tackled a braid before, back in 2022 for the TDF, where I spun that as a 2ply yarn and just pre-drafted and spun from the end and plied. Faux Cashmere is actually 100% Nylon
This time I decided to try something different with my new found confidence in different spinning techniques that I have been trying out in more recent times.
I'm working on spinning my way through some of my older braids of fibre and this one I got from Yummy Yarns UK back in August 2018, 6 years ago! The colour of this is called Pebble.
What I noticed when I undone the braid is that the dye didn't go all the way through the thickness of the braid in most places. A lot of it was just on the surface which means that there is way more white fibres than anticipated. I decided that I would probably be best to pull off small chunks and spin over the fold to try and keep the splodges of colour together in one long single and then to chain ply to keep the colours together even more. For this to work effectively and give me a decent amount of meterage to knit with I will have to spin as fine as I can.
As you can see from the spinning on the bobbin, this method is working pretty well, producing lengths of different colours/shades. I like the way this is spinning up, it's really pretty.
I think this has spun up much better than the braid I spun back in 2022. It has a different feel to it. The first skein feels "heavy, dense" whilst this one feels light, airy and soft and that has to be to do with spinning it over-the-fold which traps more air between the fibres. Maybe I should spin over-the-fold more often. Choosing to chain ply has helped keep the colours together but I think this could have been improved on further had I been more selective and flexible in the lengths of my chain loops to keep like for like colours even more together. This yarn is still gorgeous and is 97g/244m and comes in at a light fingering weight.
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