Last night, I got the clock skeiner out, put it together, and skeined up Wendy's sock yarn. According to my skeiner instructions regarding the number of turns vs. yardage, the 100grams I have measures roughly 250 yards or so. This bothers me a bit, because that works out to only approx 1130 yards per pound if all my calculations are correct. While my wraps per inch are fingering weight (around 17wpi), my ypp are around worsted weight yarn. That basically means that in 100 grams of MY sock yarn, I'm getting just slightly more yardage that a commercial 50 gram skein of sock yarn.

For all you spinners out there, how have you gotten your yarn density down? It seems that from what I've read, many spinners come out with denser yarn than a commercial equivalent. What is it that we do differently? If you have any ideas about this, I would love to hear them.

Anyway, I washed the yarn and I have it soaking in a rinse with some softener in it. I always like to do this with my yarn. Tonight I will hang it to dry and it will be ready to mail by the weekend! Woo Hoo! So Wendy, be forewarned...you may not want to plan on making very tall socks with this yarn.

Not much else got done last night, but I'm looking forward to really hitting some of my other projects tonight.