The purple superwash Merino is plied and skeined. I didn't do a yardage count, but there is definitely not enough to weave a sett sample with. It's a nice yarn though. I've no idea what to do with this yarn. Maybe I can spin up a bunch of leftover roving and make something stripey ;)
I've started weaving the sett samples for the design class homework. I did the sampler gamp first, because I thought that it would be the more monotonous exercise of all the homework. It was. These weave off fairly quickly, despite having to cut them off and rethread for each sample. It dawned on me after I'd cut the second sample off the loom, that for a couple of the twill samples, I could have run the tabby sample off right afterwards and cut some of the rethreading time. I put enough warp on to do all the samples (fingers crossed). These twills were at a sett of 8 epi, 9 epi, and 11 epi, using the 2 ply wool from the no longer in business, custom rug factory. The 11 epi is pretty firm. I have woven blankets at 9 epi and they work out nicely. At 8 epi, the weave structure is a little loose. It is amazing what a difference 1 thread per inch made. They still need to be wet finished and mounted in some way.
I found a pound of Blue Faced Leicester mill ends. It was sitting on one of my weaving tool totes, which was hiding in a corner, behind the stash of firewood. I think it is superwash with a bit of nylon in it. It spins like a dream. I plan on spinning the whole pound to the same grist and hopefully I'll have enough to weave something more than a scarf.
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