Three samples of the corespun yarn. The fluffy one is pretty, but not the least bit practical.
Three samples of the corespun yarn. The fluffy one is pretty, but not the least bit practical.
While searching for interesting corespun ideas, I tried using up more of the bright pink fiber. The single is from a Shetland fleece that is hairy, so the fine yarn was as well. But hairy is good if you are talking about wrapping something else around it. I let the fiber catch on the core yarn as I was plying it, and then took the whole thing and plied it with itself. That gave a stable, balanced yarn.
My first attempt, on the left, is very pretty but the fluffy soft fiber will shred to bits the moment I attempt to do anything with it. Like skein and measure. Forget washing. The other two yarns are the second attempt, which actually made it into a real yarn. There are some small fluffy bits there too, but there is far less wrapping fiber and it is tightly twisted around the cabled yarn. The core makes it a very strong yarn but the fluffy fibers limit its use for anything that must be washed often.