Well at least it is a bit thinner than 4ply, and I am intending to knit lace with it 🙂 It isn’t as thin as some laceweight, but then laceweight is a bit of a vague term anyway.

This started off life as two balls of Schoppel Wolle Fingerwolle, in the Fuschia colour, bought from the High Weald Fibre Factory at Wonderwool Wales (the stuff on the left of the picture).

There was 40m on each ball of combed fibre about the thickness of a finger (hence the name). You can also knit with it as it is on 8 – 9 mm knitting needles or spin it (or you could probably felt it too). The colour changes are very gradual, although it turned out that the two balls I picked weren’t at exactly the same place in the sequence, so when I plied my two singles together I have got quite a few bits where one ply is orange and the other purple.

The effect of the colours is muted quite a bit by the plying (I did a 2ply). I am looking forward to knitting this up and seeing how the colours go. I think you will still get the colour progression effect, just not as striking as it was before spinning.

I have 450m and 100g, and this is the thinnest I have managed to spin so far. I am very proud 🙂 even though it is still a bit wobbly, but I am improving. I think I am going to knit some kind of a lacey shawl but haven’t decided on a pattern yet, I shall continue to keep my eye out.