Recently I was at Value Village and I spotted this super bulky yarn. I didn’t have a use for it as yarn, but thought it would be nice to spin. I have a fondness for blues and purples.
Lion Brand Rapido is a Super Bulky yarn. This colour is called Tangy and it is 74% acrylic, 22% wool and 4% other fibres.
The yarn has a thin black binder or ply thread. That black thread needed to be removed before I could spin it. So I sat down and slowly pulled and then cut the black thread away. I was left with three balls of roving. I then started spinning. After a few days work I had two bobbins of singles. As you can see, one bobbin is much fuller than the other.
Next I started plying. Initially I did a simple 2 ply yarn, using both bobbins. When the smaller bobbin of singles ran out I was finished with the 2 ply. With the remaining singles I made a 3 ply yarn by chain plying the singles.
The completed yarns look nice and I love both the 2 ply and 3 ply yarns.
In other news…. I have been continuing to monitor the Bird Nesting Balls (see Bird Nesting Balls 2024 for more info). We have many American Goldfinches in the yard. The Goldfinches diet is 100% seeds. As a result, they time their nesting to coincide with seed availability which means they nest later than most of the other birds. Recently I have seen the Goldfinches collecting wool, alpaca, bear and dog fur from my nesting balls. Yeah! (Getting photos of them collecting the fibre is much harder.)
Our yard has also seen a number of other visitors. In addition to the steady stream of birds and Raccoons, we have had a fox visiting us quite regularly and last week this bear popped in looking for food. I was sitting at my desk about 3 m from the bird feeder and their appearance was quite the surprise. Luckily we were able to convince it move along by making a bit of noise and the feeders were undamaged. I am waiting a while before putting out more attractive smelling suet or peanuts though.
