Taking A Bath

Patience is a virtue and not one I am known to have. I couldn't wait to see how the yarn would ply and the spindle was starting to get heavy so I decided to ply what I had. I almost had a real disaster because the yarn was very fine in spots and decided to break in the middle of plying. I had a big tangled mess and got really disgusted and took the bracelet off my hands and was ready to throw the entire thing in the garbage. I couldn't do it. I couldn't let all that hard work go to waste. So back on my wrist the yarn went, I found both ends, I spit spliced the end from the spindle to the ends on my wrist and continued plying. I know where the spot is. I noticed it when I took the yarn off the spindle. I did manage to finish plying and what you see is my PVC noddy in the tub. The length is perfect. I think if I had made it longer my arms would have gotten tired as I wound the yarn from the spindle onto the noddy. I will be interested to see how many wpi the yarn ends up having. There are thin and thick spots on this as well but I can live with it. The thick spots, I belive, are not even worsted weight. They might be dk weight. I think on the whole it is somewhere between a fingering weight and lace weight. When I tried to do the wpi after I finished plying it I got around 21 wpi but it will be easier for me to do it with the tool I have once the yarn is dry. I'll put it on the scale to get a total weight but I think it will be somewhere in the 20 gram range. Now I have to get started knitting two stockings I want to finish. I don't know who I will give them to yet but I've never knit a Christmas stocking before and I wanted to give it a try. The two patterns I've decided on doing are the Knitted Fisherman Stocking and Colleen Stocking. I cast on for the fisherman already and if I am lucky I can have it done by next Sunday. It all depends on how much time I spin and how much time I knit.