Another Attempt at a 3-Ply Fingering Weight Yarn

This yarn is the product of another of my attempts to make a three-ply fingering weight yarn. Depending on what yarn weight chart you use, this is either on the heavier side of fingering weight or sport weight at 14 wraps per inch. To my eye and hand, it’s pretty close to Blue Moon’s Socks that Rock® medium weight, which they call a sport weight, and I think it will knit up similarly to that since it does seem to have the same sort of bounce to it.

I do like the colors; they seem sort of spring-like to me. That’s due to the beautiful roving I used. It’s a hand-dyed merino superwash I bought from Zarzuela Fibers‘ Etsy shop. The colorway is “Jackson Pollock” which she seems to be out of right now, but she does have quite a selection of beautiful colorways, so you should definitely take a look at her shop next time you’re in the market for hand-dyed fiber.

On a related subject, I just bought the book The Intentional Spinner: A Holistic Approach to Making Yarn which seems to have a lot of good information about creating exactly the yarn you want. I’m going to work my way through this book and then take another shot at spinning a true three-ply fingering weight yarn.

Tagged as: fingering weight, handspun yarn, sport weight