A Fisherman Knits

The contemporaneous accounts of  fisherman's garments tend to describe them as "rough' or "coarse". Warm, durable, and inexpensive, but not "pretty".
Thus, if I spin yarns for traditional fisherman's sweaters, and they are warm, durable, and inexpensively, and I can get them spun on the required schedule, then I have succeed....

I said flat ended needles work, and work faster, and are easier to make.
A bunch of folk screamed!
Did any of them get out their knitting sheaths and knit a few objects with gansey yarn and flat ended needles before they screamed?  Are the screamers folks that have made and used many knitting sheaths?  Are the screamers folks that have made many of...

The truth is that once I have posed a pix to show that I am spinning a particular weight, I do not need to prove it over and over by posting pix of every hank of that weight that I spin.
A current bin of my miscellaneous spinning;
Some of it is poor spinning, but there are miles of 5,600 ypp and 11,200 ypp singles in that bin.  The bin is a little empty just now because I recently used a couple miles of singles from it to make 5-ply yarn for a couple of sweaters.  5-ply is in...

One thing that many of my critics miss about me is that I do keep going back and rethinking the obvious.  If I get it wrong the first time, I may get it correct when I return to the topic.
Now, I am back to the nature of warm fabrics.
Let use divide the kingdom of knitting yarns into 1) singles; 2) 2-ply and 3-ply, and 3) 5-ply and  greater.  Note that 4-ply got lost somewhere....