Wash-N-Whack Days

For the non-spinners, wash-n-whack is what you do with a skein of yarn after you've spun and plyed it. You plunge the skein first into a basin of very hot soapy water and then into a basin of very cold water. This shocks the fibres and finishes the yarn

I love wash-n-whack days. It feels like the culmination of my efforts. Today there was a 19g mini-skein of natural brown corriedale 2ply, a 4oz skein of rainbow leicester longwool single, and a 100g skein of respun Hipknits silk in chocolate cherries. That last one was a freebee from its original owner who was frustrated over the breakages it had which I feel is because it wasn’t spun tightly enough for a single-ply yarn. So respun it all together and then set it with the other two skeins. Good thing I decided to set it too because it leaked dye terribly! 2 hot rinses and 4 cold before it got to a point I was happy with! Now they’re all drying and I feel very accomplished.

Since there is plenty of day left and since I've already got the wheel out, I think I'll continue on and see about spinning up the 2nd Gotland batt Malinky sent me from Sweden. The first one is already finished. I love spinning batts but they do take up a fair bit space, which is somewhat at a premium in my room right now!