I've been avoiding the Maldives spinning for a while. It takes for bleeding ever to feel like I've made any progress when I look at the bobbin and, on top of that, I was worried I wasn't spinning the laceweight quite right; I was afraid I hadn't put enough twist into it and was going to have trouble once it was (finally) time to ply.

I separated a little onto a separate bobbin and plied it and I was right--I had major breakage problems and it was a pain in the butt to ply...

I have mixed feelings about the results:

(cheerio for scale. I have a year and a half year old, what do you really expect?)

From my gauge, it looks like its about 35ish WPI and its incredibly soft. I'd totally buy this stuff if I saw it for sale.

I dont know if I can add much more twist to the single (I'm sure it *can* be done, I'm just not experienced enough to be able to do that right now) without breaking it and I don' want to have to deal with the constant breaking while plying a large amount of laceweight.

I have most of the roving left--what do you think? spin a worsted for a cool scarf from knitting new scarves? lightweight for socks? bulky for a cool hat? I just can't decide.

In other news, the house stuff is plugging along. We are going out this afternoon and I think I've found a house for us that will do nicely. The pictures look lovely online--I just hope the layout is good--theres nothing worse to me than a really weirdly laid out house...