Post by @Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden

2026-07-16 14:12 UTC

#TourDeFleece Stage 11 Plied up the singles of 2:1 TM/Espresso merino yarn that I split up yesterday. Oddly, despite precise yardage measurements, and each cone holding 21g of yarn, the blue one ran out considerably earlier than the other two! 😭 My only explanation is that I wound from the EEW 6.1 with slight tension on the bobbin to keep it under control on to the blue cone, but then transferred 105 yd each from the blue cone on my Lazy Kate to the other cones, and perhaps the difference in resistance impacted overall stretch, which therefor translated into different length calculations. No biggie, though! I just tied in a marker where the 3-ply ended and continued with 2-ply for the other two, which were much more closely matched in length. After that I repeated the cone-winding process with the 3:1 TM/Espresso singles. Interestingly, while both were spun from 60 g fiber total, the 2:1 measured 319 yd, while the 3:1 came out at 265 yd. #TourDeFleece2026 #Chiengora

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@Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden 2026-07-19 18:03

Time to catch up on #TourDeFleece posts! Stage #12 (last Thursday) This day I finished up my Tibetan Mastiff / merino blend experiments. First I plied up the 3:1 TM/Espresso, which was a MUCH better success, yarn-chicken-wise, than the 2:1 blend. See photo! Then I split the 2:1 TM/Dark Chocolate (lighter brown) onto 3 cones, which went fine, and then plied them, which did NOT go fine! Perhaps I should have stopped when I was ahead, but I felt determined to finish before bed and started making mistakes. First one of the singles broke. No problem! I'll just splice in the free end and keep going. But while doing that the other two singles got horrible tangled. I fought the tangles for a bit, but eventually just cut out that whole section, tied a knot, and kept going. This one also ended with a 2-ply section when one of the singles ran out well before the others. And in the end, you STILL can't really tell the Espresso vs. Dark Chocolate blends! (Both 2:1 blends are shown here.) #TourDeFleece2026 #Chiengora

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