The skein is 88 yards, the bobbin 107 yards (I wound it off after I took the photo). That's almost enough Silly String to make a rag rug. And lemme tell ya, this is a lot of work for a "scraps" project! The yarn is made from weaving thrums, leftovers of warp and bobbin extras tied together, then spun into two bobbins-worth of 4-ply, and then spun again to make an 8-ply strand. Hard work or no, the resultant product satisfies two criteria in my book: one, it utilizes something which most people would discard and two, it's colourful, light-hearted and soon to be useful. Hey, that's a win-win as far as I'm concerned. Okay, so I get really tired of tying all those ends together, but I love seeing the combinations come together on the spinning wheel. I figure I need 200-250 yards to make a rug, but now I'm out of thrums!
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