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I Did a New Thing! I Plied Yarn!

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Rebecca Lynn taught me how to ply yarn today! I also learned that I need to either spin finer yarn, OR halve my turtles, because holy gadzooks was it difficult to ply all that yarn! She also taught me how to ply yarn using the Andian plying method, which was at first pretty complicated but after I got the hang of it, it went pretty well! (Andian plying is only used for quite-small lengths of yarn.) Here's the result:

A Gift!

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 My amazing friend Rebecca Lynn sent me this LOVELY wool in the mail.  It's so soft. The texture is quite different from the wool I'm currently working with. I can't wait to spin some of this up!  Look at this gorgeous  color!!!  Rebecca Lynn, THANK YOU, so much! You are the best!