Saturday 28 January 2012

Rise to the Challenge - Yarn Part 2

My newly spun and dyed yarn has now dried so I can show you the colour of it
But this isn't enough to make anything, which is part of my plan for this challenge. But I had 50g of British Blue Faced Leicester and Merino Roving left to spin as well as 35g of Handcarded Merino and British Shetland Batt. The roving looked like this:
And became this single
Whilst the batt was like this:
And became this:
This was the first thing that I had to split myself before drafting,  which was pretty fun. It came as a big sheet. I decided to ply them together to make yarn like this:
I love this, and I think it will go really well with the pink! Plus I still have some of the purple single left, which I will ply together soon to make a little bit of plain purple yarn. this time I have 68 yards and I can really see my spinning improving. The purple is pretty uniform throughtout the lengths of the single, which is good.

2 comments:

  1. Its really cool that you can spin your own stuff, I like all the different ones you have made :)

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  2. I bought the kit after I saw your last link about it! Looks like I bought the same colour too ;) Thanks for the link, I spent all weekend playing with it!

    Yours looks great!

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