Sophia asked me to read the beginning of her new story and I thought it was so good that I just had to share!
Don’t you want to know what happens next??? And you know that college writing class that she got to take this semester that she was stressing so much about? The professor gave her a 97 on her research paper and asked her if he could use it as an example in his future writing classes! Look for her novel at Borders in about 10 years!
I thought I’d show you how I’m preparing and spinning the 4 oz. of Enchanted Knoll Farm Superwash Merino in the Flannel PJ’s colorway.
This is how it arrives. I could spin this directly but I would like to make a skein of striped yarn that captures all of the color changes.
I split the roving down the middle into two long roving. Then I took one of the lengths, split in two and pre-drafted. I rolled each into a birdnest making sure to start each one at the same end of the length.
I am spinning the first of these. You can clearly see the stripes of color!
Here is the second half of the roving. I’ll do the same to this half. It is split in two and each half is pre-drafted and rolled.
This shows the difference before and after pre-drafting.
The fibers are all nicely spread out and smooth. They will just fly onto the wheel!
So I spun one of the first half of roving and will now spin the first of the second half. That will fill one bobbin. Then I will do the second bobbin in the same order. What should result is two bobbins with exactly the same striping pattern. Then I will ply the two together to make a two ply yarn that is perfectly (or almost 😉 striped. Then it will be off to my Etsy shop!
Oh yes, it also snowed again today . . . 🙂
Tomorrow it’s dinner with some friends visiting Saratoga for the weekend! And more snow on Tuesday . . .
Wonderful story!
I would love to learn how to spin yarn. Come to think of it, I’d love to learn how to knit!!
Beautiful work! 🙂
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_Andrea