Ivory Tower

This is probably the finest piece that i have made so far. i spun nine induvidual strands out of wensleydale wool, soy silk and silk latte. soy silk is made from byproduct of the tofu industry, i'm not sure if it is natural fibers from the soybean plant or if it is a fiber that is made from some sort of proteins that are discarded after the tofu is made. silk latte is a fiber that is made from proteins from milk. wensleydale wool comes from the wensleydale sheep of course, but it's fiber is very long and strong like silk is, i think it has a silky feel too. someone told me it was also called poor mans mohair. so i plyed the strands three at a time, so i ended up with three 3-ply yarns. so when your spinning, if you want to ply two yarns together they have to have been both spun the same direction, then when you ply them together you spin the two strands together the opposite direction that they were originally spun. so you spin clockwise, ply counterclockwise. next i cabled the three 3-ply yarns together, cabling is pretty much plying already plyed yarns, so you spin clockwise, ply counterclockwise, and cable clockwise. so i ended up with a yarn made from nine strands, then i knitted it into a monster 4.5in x 80.5in scarf that weighs over a pound!