Soy fibers are way easier to spin than 10 year old wool. At some points, though, it would just get so thin that I had to stop and literally cut it so I could start again from a higher point. I say cut it because neither I, nor Adam, could break the single thread by pulling on it. Crazy!
I read some horror stories that soy can take up to a week to dry after you ply and soak it, and that it can congeal into a gross mass during the process. Thankfully, neither of those things happened.
I have a lot of soy left, so this is an experiment that I will be repeating shortly, and hopefully with better results. During the plying process, there was some tangling and some breaking and some hasty tying. Kind of tragic.
Either way, here's a close-up of my 95% dry soy yarn. I wound up with almost exactly 100 yards.
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