As soon as I rescue the first two skeins of yarn I made.
I thought I was pretty slick, spinning my yarn and measuring it with my WPI tool. I was downright smug about it. Y'all know where this is going...
Naturally, after I plied and washed my yarn, it...bloomed. It fluffed up. Expanded. What was supposed to be an 8-wraps-per-inch yarn became a 4-wpi-yarn. Which mean not only was the yarn totally wrong for its intended purpose, but I wouldn't have enough yardage anyway. Plus, I just didn't like it at that thickness, so plying it all and use it for a different project wasn't appealing, either.
I went ahead and made a skein from the same singles, except this time a 2-ply. OF COURSE it was perfect. Just what I wanted. The thickness, the color, the character. Arrrrgggh. I consulted the website to see if I could buy more fiber and dye and perhaps recreate my results. They were out of stock on the lovely silk merino blend. More arrrrrrrgggh. Then I looked at my two hideous 3-ply skeins and lamented wasting such gorgeous fiber. Arrrrggggh, again.
Then I realized...why don't I just unply it? Oh. Yeah.
So, last night I unspun the one 3ply skein back onto a bobbin, I put one of the three plies on my ball winder and the other two on my skeiner and made Dug help me manage it as I took the yarn apart. It was a time-consuming pain in the booty because we had to stop and untwist the bobbin and undo snarls...but it worked!
I just have to cross my fingers that it still looks right once I re-ply and wash it. I want my green sweater, people.
