Tonight I had a particularly unpleasant experience. About two weeks ago I’d spun a loooong green blended merino single from some fibre I really like (from SarasTextureCrafts on etsy). Unfortunately, for some reason I’d thought it was a good idea to give it some good, strong overtwisting. The sort that leaves tiny little kinks that you really have to apply tension to get rid of.

This makes plying quite the annoying endeavour! I tried to work a lot of them out as I went, but I’m not sure how much that accomplished. I’ll get some water going tomorrow evening to set the twist on this skein, wind it off the spindle, and find out what happens. It won’t be perfect by any means, but hopefully it won’t be a disaster.

The one saving grace is that this yarn is intended to be cut up into little pieces and used by my Mom around the holidays to attach tags to the handbags she makes and sells. Kinks that still show up after finishing the yarn should be able to be worked to the ends or simply cut out while making the shorter pieces.