Say yes! Because you know you can TOTALLY trust me, right? You can believe everything I say!

Like, for instance, this:

I am loving this so much that I am tempted to finish it as fine singles. Only… I have a two-ply sample that I made when I first got it home, and that is so lovely that I don’t think I can bear not to ply the rest.

Luckily, I don’t have to commit yet.

For now… I can just keep spinning.

Which I wrote just last night, right?

And what do you suppose I did a scant couple of hours later?

That’s right. I up and plied the icelandic anyway.

I had one full bobbin and the second was a little over half-full - so I knew I had enough singles to fill one bobbin with plied yarn. So I decided not to postpone joy.

In my defense, I also knew that last night was almost certainly going to be my last chance to play with it for, well, a few days at least. Sure enough, the yarn I was waiting for arrived today, so now I have to be All Knitting All the Time, and glad I am to have made my hay while the (midnight) sun shone.

The plying was a bit humbling, very good for my sneaking tendency to lapse into hubris. Funny how the singles that looked and felt SO smooth and even as I spun them… weren’t quite, after all. Apparently I need to be a little less devil-may-care about joining when I work with this fiber. OK, fair enough, lesson learned.

Still - after winding and washing and whacking and drying and re-skeining…

… I’m pretty happy with what I got. There’s room for improvement, of course - but there’s also evidence of improvement. Can’t complain about that.

Also, well, the yarn itself is quite beautiful and soft and yarny. And I really, really love it. Cassie… have I thanked you lately?

I have about 175 yards here, and enough singles/fiber left to make as much again and a little more. I think. Still learning to estimate.

And that’s enough dawdling in the Spinny Department for one day. I’ll keep this by me for occasional fondling breaks, but not more than that - for the rest of the day I’m a knitting/writing fool.

“Golden West,” here I come.

See you on the other side.

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