I had carded a 'blend' of Clun Forest, some brown Corriedale - with the resulting batts having some all white, some all brown, and some completely blended - in layers.
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| Part of a batt |
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Spinning from the mixed batt give some random stripes/bands of the three colours in varying degrees by just spinning as normal for these batts (short forward draw).
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| Half a bobbin of singles - random striping |
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Then for the first time I have tried chain plying (also known as Navajo plying). Having heard about this technique for some time I was keen to try it out and see what it would do with this 'random' yarn. I do have some books with 'how to' but of course, they are all packed. Thank goodness for the internet. I found a very useful and straight forward example of how to do this at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmlwtojLXI8
It seemed straight forward and indeed that was the case - so I am now half way through the 2oz bobbin of yarn I intend to make.
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| 3 ply |
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The brown colour is not coming out particularly well in the photo's - just my camera. The yarn is a very nice 'warm' variegated brown that should work for a hat or gloves perhaps?
This will be the last spinning before the wheel heads off to storage - some time later in the week.
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