First I had to ply some nice yarn to empty my bobbins. The natural oatmeal with flecks of medium brown is a soft, smooshy 2 ply shetland with about 2oo yards of yarn. I also had about 80 yards of lilac lace weight yarn spun from roving I got at Serenity Farms. Cary raises wonderful Corriedale sheep and I've never been dissappointed with fleece or roving I've gotten from her.
Next, it was treat time! I stripped the roving into pieces about as thick as my thumb and divided it into two piles approximately the same weight and started spinning. It's going to make a thick fingering, not quite sport weight and and I'm planning on plying it with a similar single of white alpaca. When I sampled just the 2 ply, the colors almost looked like I was making John Deere yarn and while that's not a terrible thing, it isn't what I wanted. By adding the white single it broke it up and I still had the colors that looked like sunshine or a field of sunflowers.
I'm putting it in to soak then letting it dry while I run to the feed store. Hopefully I'll have a new knit scarf up soon.
First I had to ply some nice yarn to empty my bobbins. The natural oatmeal with flecks of medium brown is a soft, smooshy 2 ply shetland with about 2oo yards of yarn. I also had about 80 yards of lilac lace weight yarn spun from roving I got at Serenity Farms. Cary raises wonderful Corriedale sheep and I've never been dissappointed with fleece or roving I've gotten from her.
Next, it was treat time! I stripped the roving into pieces about as thick as my thumb and divided it into two piles approximately the same weight and started spinning. It's going to make a thick fingering, not quite sport weight and and I'm planning on plying it with a similar single of white alpaca. When I sampled just the 2 ply, the colors almost looked like I was making John Deere yarn and while that's not a terrible thing, it isn't what I wanted. By adding the white single it broke it up and I still had the colors that looked like sunshine or a field of sunflowers. 
I'm putting it in to soak then letting it dry while I run to the feed store. Hopefully I'll have a new knit scarf up soon.
