Last day of Green

This being the last day of green, a short post. I have received (and will post a picture of) the Spunky Eclectic roving for June, blue. It's blue with some red and very patriotic looking. But no white that I can see.

My thing is, red, white and blue would be fun. But if I add white to it, I get pink. I do NOT like pink. Hmm.

I will be spindle spinning singles of this roving on my Brownie camping trip this weekend and will post pictures of spinning in public next week. Then I will decide. I'm thinking about plying it with white. Or bringing some white and navajo plying in the end. Or something. I don't know.

But my first idea of plying the months together won't work here, as I don't want to have the red and the green together AT ALL. Blech.

More later!

Green Gables yarn

Here's the yarn, Green Gables Superwash Wool from Spunky Eclectic plied with BFL dyed by yours truly with Easter Egg dye (yellow, blue/green, with the melon pulled out for some other project).

And the original roving, just as a reminder.



Both singles were spun from the fold, although the superwash was easier. I like this yarn very much. I think it looks like the original roving even though it isn't, as there was more white in the roving than was apparent at first glance.

I still have an ounce and a half or so of the roving left to do something else with, but I think I will wait. Maybe ply it with the blue of June, who knows. It would be fun to do some blending of the colors one into the other perhaps.

What's been nice so far about this is I've been really motivated to spin. I've been knitting more lately but I do have to get on the stick about the L.A. County Fair project, which involves spinning six different colors (only two of which have been carded yet). You can see that project on my other blog, Progressive Purls, but watch out for the political content!

Anyone else ready to send pictures?

Here's what I have so far

The first bobbin is the Green Gables singles yarn. It does look greener than this, but this picture is at least better than the sample skein!



This is the two bobbins of singles to be plied. I wish I had gotten to this yesterday, but I'm taking 12 7-year-olds camping this afternoon and, surprise, surprise, I had to prepare! So no spinning probably till everyone's at school on Monday.



Have you spun anything yet?

I had one more idea

So I tried spinning the Green Gables roving and the Easter egg roving separately and then plying them together. Here is a bad picture. It does not show the colors any better than the previous ones. The yarn is still primarily green but it does have more yellow and peach than the green roving. I like it, actually.



So the now I'm trying one more thing. I'm spinning the Green Gables roving from the fold (I could not recommend this highly enough; the superwash is SO slippery and it's fun and fast!) and then spinning the Easter egg yellow and turquoise (and occasional green patch) from the fold to be plied together. Whew! This mixes the yellow and blue together some of the time (more green!) but not all the time so there is still some nice variation. I should end up with about 3 ounces of that yarn in the end. Already finished the superwash singles.

I had forgotten how much I like spinning from the fold. It's got a similar magical feeling to the long draw, somehow. And it's nice to be basically using one hand, relaxing.

Anyone else spinning yet?

Sample Skeins

I had a bit of time today to begin to spin up samples. Here's what I got. I couldn't get very good color representation on the photos, sorry. The first picture is, from left to right, Green Gables plied with itself, spun from the fold; combination drafted with some BFL dyed turquoise, yellow and yellow orange with Easter Egg dyes, plied on itself; and the same two rovings combination drafted as sportweight singles.



The yellow in the original roving really disappears in the spinning and plying. I think the combination draft/plied sample looks a bit more like the original roving than the original roving does! The singles are okay, but having to be soft spun so as not to be overtwisted, they are too matte looking for my taste.

The next photo is Green Gables combination drafted with some BFL from Paradise Fibers in Yellow/Red/Green/Blue/Purple space dyed and plied on itself. It's okay. I've made some yarn like this in Color in Spinning experiments, but I would rather do this with a yarn that was primarily red or purple than green.












The last picture is of my favorites. I dug up some space dyed merino in green/blue/yellow and combination drafted and plied on itself on the left. That's nice. Doesn't look like the original roving, though, which has no blue. Then I decided to spin the rovings separately and ply them together. This is my favorite so far.



Next I will try spinning separately then plying with the orignal roving and the yellow/orange/turquoise stuff from the first picture. It might not look green enough, then, but I'll see.

What are you coming up with?