1400 Yards

We did the math, and figured out that I need approximately 1400 yards for the Mr. Greenjeans sweater, at my gauge. (That's rounding up, for safety.) Last night I plied a second hank of Blugly. THIS TIME, I remembered to count the wraps while I was winding the yarn from the bobbin to the niddy noddy, and discovered that one full bobbin of Navajo-plied Blugly yields just over 112 yards. So, 11 more to go.

That, my friends, is a whole lotta Blugly.

I was thinking about this daunting task I've set for myself, but then I realized I can spin a bobbin full of yarn in one evening. That's no big deal. (I'm sure advanced spinners are way faster than this - I am not advanced, and I am way slow.) I usually spin at least two on Saturdays. And I'm not the type of person to take the advice I've read in every spinning book or column on the internet and actually WAIT to make the sweater until all the Blugly is spun. Oh no. There will be no waiting.

Also, I'll be accepting advice regarding color as soon as I spin some of the second dye-batch of the Blugly. You'll see that although it has the exact same colors as the first batch, it has a LOT more gray in it. This is not a tragedy because it's really pretty. I want to use both, so I was thinking of doing the button band and the cuffs of the sleeves in the less-gray Blugly, and the body of the sweater in the more-gray Blugly. But first I have to spin it and take pictures of it, and maybe knit a swatch with both colors together. Then we can decide.