waaaaaah yarn disaster
So I spun a couple successful yarns like this:



hand painted bfl spun fat and squooshy and plied with a sparkly holographic thread.

but then disaster struck!
I only had a little bit of the bfl left so I spun it up as a nice even worsted weight single. Really pretty with great color transitions, in my opinion. Then I plied it (and this is important because it emphasizes how what happened is TOTALLY NOT MY FAULT) very tightly with the sparkly hologram thread. and it was so, so pretty on the bobbin and so, so pretty skeined up.

And then I soaked it to set the twist.

And I have no idea what happened -- if it relaxed and untwisted a bit in its nice bath, or if the wool maybe even shrunk, but when I removed it it had all these loose coils of the sparkly yarn sticking off of it.

At this point, if I had put it aside and asked for help, it probably would have been salvageable. But of course I did not do that! instead, I thought "thwacking some yarns makes them bloom and fluff up so I shall beat the hell out of this yarn" (and maybe I just wanted to beat on it a bit). So I thwacked the yarn around the inside of the shower, and guess what it did? the wool shrunk and fulled and now I have this:



2 individually nice elements (a nice fulled hand painted wooly ply and fun sparkly thread) but altogether, a disaster.

So now what the hell do I do? Try to unply it? somehow turn it into art yarn? throw it into the deepest corner of the yarn closet and pretend it never happened? anyone?