My Shetland wool yarn turns out to be just shy of lace weight once I plied it. I wrapped it on my Niddy Noddy and counted 29 wraps per inch (wpi). Fingering weight is 18-30 wpi, and lace is 30-40 wpi. Hm. That is OK. This first batch (or really three, since I was also testing turned spindles as well) is really just to have something to use for Shetland lace knitting samples, to see if that is a knitting I will enjoy.