January Squatch Along

Sweets Off The Wheel is doing a spin-along with fiber provided by Three Waters Farm.  Two ounces of three different fibers, spun any way the participant chooses, and then turned into a finished object.

The theme evolved from a series of inspirational pictures that focused mostly on forests, and then Sasquatch got thrown in, because that's the way the group rolls.  Sasquatch is an elusive, large, hairy, bipedal humanoid who lives in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.  This cute little guy is one of the mascots of the 2010 Olympic Games held in Vancouver, B.C.

This first bit of fiber is Forest Mushrooms, which is organic polwarth.  Polwarth is very nice to work with.  It is easy to draft, and creates a fairly elastic yarn.

I split the braid in half, and then weighed the halves to make sure they were even.  The bobbins looked like this, which left me wondering how I had messed up so badly:

The bobbins were so mismatched that I was afraid the yarn would barber pole, which was not my intent.  As odd as they looked, the bobbins were actually fairly even, and only towards the very end of plying did the yarn barber pole.  

I managed 111 yards of what appears to be mostly worsted weight.