Cashmere & Silk Sampling

I've been carding my cashmere fiber into punis with my cotton cards and spinning the punis on my Cascade Shasta spindle.  I've also been spinning natural silk on my Natalie spindle given to me by Opal.  I made some plied samples.  The top sample is 2-ply cashmere at 20 wpi.  The bottom sample is 2 plies of cashmere with 1 ply of silk at 18 wpi.  The silk adds more body to the yarn and helps to smooth out the textury cashmere singles.  I will have to make some longer plied samples and knit them up before I can decide which yarn I like better.  I should also give one ply of each a try as 2-ply yarn is better for lace and I plan on knitting a lacy scarf with this handspun yarn.

Comments

[Dave Daniels]

NATALIE!
Ahem
I'm glad I'm not the only one who samples on spindles. Of course, it all looks so pretty. (I know what you'll be doing this weekend.)

[textillian]

It all looks so delicate. Is this all in prep for MSWF?

[Opal]

I am so glad you are making use of the Natalie. It was just sitting here collecting dust. And you're spinning so beautifully with it too!

[Carolyn]

It is amazing the things you do.

[Carol]

I missed you! I was on a spring cleaning hiatus~yuk. I'm just surprised you didn't knit up a whole new wardrobe;-)
The new yarn sounds luscious!