I haven't had the chance to do much spinning recently - but I made the time to finish some that I'd been part way through and it made me so happy to have it off the bobbins and lying prettily in my hands, all soft and stroky!
It was a merino-alpaca blend that I had got as 1 of my birthday present fibre club shipments. It was half light brown, half strawberry pink. I spun the singles from the separate colours, planning to ply them together. I imagined the colours blending together in a fuzzy browny-pink harmony.
That didn't happen!
As it became clear that the 2 colours were not sitting happily together I stopped plying and washed the yarn I'd made, hoping that some kind of magic would happen. It didn't.
So I hat two full bobbins of fairly thinly spun singles, that didn't work together. So I decided that it was about time that I worked out how to navajo ply, or chain ply. Once I got my head around it, it went swimmingly. It's a little overplyed in places, and some of the fuzziness has been lost, but it is quite lovely.
I
I like how they look side-by-side, and I've even managed to make a decision about what I'm going to make with them. I had been thinking of gloves, but then I thought it might be nice to make a non-beaded, two colour version of my Pretty as a Picture Wrap. I think that I will do the lower lace part in the brown then do the short row stocking stitch section striped, and the picot cast off in the pink. What do you think?
Recent Comments