Created By Artsygal

It's been a while since I did a Yarn Pr0n Friday.. but one of my most recent handspuns.. well it is a YPF worthy skein, even if I say so myself! It started off as a batt created by the ever so talented Steph of Loop on etsy.com. When I saw the Chocolate Liqueur bamboo batts, I just knew they had to be mine.

Once they arrived, I couldn't start spinning quickly enough! It's the first time I've spun bamboo, and I was absolutely in love with how soft and silk it is. And.. with how FINE I could spin it so very easily. So I started spinning..

and spinning.. and spinning some more. And realized that I may just have 3 oz of batts, but I was getting an aweful lot of yardage out of this! Once the first half was spun up on one bobbin, I decided to play with the colours a little. After all.. that IS what I do, right? For the second bobbin, I separated the colours, and spun them sequentially.. first the gold, then the red, followed by the brown. Since the first half had been spun randomly, there were bits of all three colours spread haphazardly all throughout the entire bobbin. So this should give me a yarn that shifts through the colours.

(See the red and gold walls of my apartment in the background? Amazingly well coordinated with the yarn, no?)

End result - approximately 960 yards of fine laceweight out of 3 oz. That works out to 5120 yards per lb. A little bit more than Zephyr. I think I could use this for any pattern that calls for Zephyr.

Unless something else comes along, I think I'll use this to make a laceweight clapotis. Simple and classic and perfect to showcase the actual yarn. And just right for a summer wrap too.