Behold my first wheel spun yarn. There is over two hundred grammes of fibre, including a three ply made from some spindle spun singles I found hiding in the knitting bag (one of the cream skeins). Admittedly its all extremely rustic and uneven diameter, but it is knittable and its less rustic and more even than my first spindle spun yarn was. The tension square I did last night came out looking OK despite the widely differing yarn thicknesses and its rather magic the way the thick bits sort of fill in for the thin bits. And I think you can see why its been dubbed the zebra project.
This evening I've started to knit the yarn up into what I hope will become a sweater. I'm using the raglan sweater recipe from the book Custom Knits for this purpose and designing on the fly . I am not totally sure how far the yarn will go, or whether the sweater will be cropped, what length sleeves it will have, or whether I'll need to make it striped or not. I have about 300 metres of yarn in total across both colourways (as far as I can tell from my rudimentary measuring method), but its such a varied weight that I'm not absolutely sure how far the yarn will go. Its knitting up OK so far as I can tell and the yarn is going further than I expected it to (at least at this very early stage) so I am hoping that the sweater will prove feasible. I don't really want to have to pull it all out and knit a hat instead.
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