
I acquired this over a year ago on a trip to Idaho. It was found at a small knitting store in Couer d' Alene and wasn't labeled. It is wool and hopefully local to the area. It came home and first it sat out where it could be observed. I didn't want any moths popping up sight unseen and chomping their way through a closet of roving, yarn, and fabric. After about two months with no sign of problems, it was consigned to the closet.

About a month and a half ago, it was pulled from the closet. I decided to go with it rather than the oldest roving. It looked like a nice change of pace after the really stiff wool. I started with the large whorl but the bobbin was rattling. Moved to the smaller whorl after it was suggested as a solution. This helped. For some reason, it was spinning finer than I expected.

The wool had some lanolin left in it. Maybe the slight stickiness encouraged the fine spin. Maybe it was the crimp. This will remain a mystery. I decided to go with a basic two ply. From 12 ounces, I ended up with two very full bobbins and a bit on another. The plying could have gone better. The over-spin on the singles wasn't completely compensated for by the ply. There are waves in the yarn. Which probably means it will produce a biased fabric when knit.

10 yards on the little skein. 460 yards on one of the big skeins based on count. Probably a little less the second big skein.
Just a quick note.
I just checked all of my settings. It looks like I didn't update with my new e-mail for the comments notification. I just changed that. Hopefully, I start getting notices about comments again. Apologies to anyone who was wondering what was going on.
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