Poonies become yarn

Poonies become yarn
Originally uploaded by Altivo

Back on July 22 I posted about dyeing cotton poonies yellow and blue. I'm now about half finished with the job of spinning them and plying the resulting thread into a lace weight yarn for knitting.

Here is a photo of the Bosworth book charkha I am using to spin the dyed poonies into thread. Two strands of the thread are then plied together in the opposite direction using a spinning wheel. Note poonies on the right, finished 2-ply yarn on the left. This yarn is coming out to about 2400 to 2800 yards per pound and I plan to knit a lacy scarf from it.