I’m sure it sounds silly. I’ve got this strange issue with my spinning – I can only spin thin yarns.
I’ve thought of many reasons for this problem: I’m a perfectionist and I can only make very very skinny yarns be as consistent as I want. I’ve done too much work in the last two years with lace and fingering weight yarns and nothing else feels normal to my hands. Or maybe the fibres I’ve been buying are the wrong sort for spinning thicker yarns.
I really don’t know. But I do know that the ‘thicker than usual’ skein from two days ago comes in at a good solid ‘almost DK’ weight. Still pretty tiny.
One of my goals for the next few weeks is to continue getting gradually thicker with the singles I spin. The rule is that they need to keep being consistent. None of this ‘art yarn’ stuff. I’m not fooling myself – it would be beginner yarn, not art yarn. I need to work on making my output consistent and what I was trying to do before I can make it funky!
Do you have any goals in your crafty-life? What are they?