Obsession du jour
- At May 15, 2011
- By Alison
- In spinning
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Well, du semaine, I suppose. I’ve been doing a lot of experiments in dyeing fibre recently – which of course means that I need to test the dyed fibre by spinning it. Sometimes my life is so hard. 
This is about 30 g of BFL humbug roving, dyed in ‘twilight’, which is a mixture of dusky blue, purple and blue-green. The brown in the humbug roving darkens and richens the colours further, but because it’s not a solid blend, there’s quite a lot of contrast mixed in, too.
I started spinning the singles on Tuesday evening, and the regular spin night, and have been taking every moment to spin since – until late Saturday, when I finished the plying. Now I have about 300 metres of a heavy laceweight/light fingering weight yarn to play with.
I think it’s safe to say it spins up just fiiiine, don’t you?
Alexis
what a lovely colour! I’ve been in a “white” phase lately (not sure why) but I’ve got some things growing in the garden I want to experiment with dyeing in the next month or so. I’m dying to try rhubarb leaves as a mordant.
Evelyn
Beautifull! What is the next part of the experiment? Weaving? Knitting?
gayle
Truly lovely yarn!
(Here’s a stupid question – what is humbug roving? I tried googling, but the only definitions I found didn’t involve wool…)
Mary de B
I like the idea of an obsession du jour!