Yarn Porn

[liralen]

I should probably cross-post there... hm... been a while...



First the dried roving, both balled and thinned a bit. You can see the way the colors blend together a bit when it's thinned, and there's that fascinating part where all three colors kind of mixed at various levels on the right on the thinned picture.



Next, on the spool, so you can get some idea of how much length there is for some of the transitions. The candy striping is pretty fun.



Okay... I'll admit to the fact that I often, conceptually, dislike worsted singles because I'm lazy and I have to BLOCK them. They kink up a bit if I don't do that, and pill worse if the spin isn't set. So I did the normal hot water set and then blocked it with a bucket with some water already in it. Here's the yarn while blocking:



And miracle of miracles, the skein didn't twist at ALL when it dried. (Which means that the yarn likely won't bias when being knit, and the blocking held, and the wool has settled in the twist of the yarn.) Here's the yarn porn shot:



Whew.

Comments

[hartofthewud.livejournal.com]

such pretty colours *smiles* despite the troublesome bits of the process, i can see how this must be a very satisfying thing to do. and the 'thinned roving' stage makes me think you've laid out a rainbow you caught within a cloud.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Mmm... good description there. *smiles* It is beautiful at that stage. There is a fiber artist that does felting where she can take a white felt and lay a layer just of the thinned roving over it and capture just that feel at the top... rubbing it in with soap and hot water.

Yeah, I love the colors. *grins* Which is probably why I keep playing with it.