I hate to admit it, but it’s been ages since I last used my spinning wheel. In fact, the last time was back in the fall when I started spinning this Knit Picks roving I dyed myself.
The colours reminded me of those gorgeous Caribbean sunset pictures, but I thought that realistically they were a little too bold for me….
Plying the pink and white together helped clear up some bobbins so I was able to spin up the red roving. Aren’t the colours gorgeous? It’s Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Roving in Wild Rose Heather and Hot Rod Heather.
The rest of the singles
I’m making good progress on my Study in Pink spinning project. As I mentioned before, I don’t have enough bobbins to hold all the singles at once so I started with the white and the pink.
Spun into singles and ready to ply
Then it was time to ply…
I’ve got a new spinning project in the works. I’ve been thinking about a nice shawl to wear on cool summer evenings and I decided I’d spin the yarn myself. Now, I don’t have enough of any one colour for a decent sized shawl so I’m going to have to combine a few colours of Knit Picks Roving, but I think it might actually be more fun this way.
Knit Picks Roving
The Malabrigo Nube is done and I hated every minute of it. But the colours are nice, and I can see myself using the finished yarn (about 135 m of 3-ply, in case you were wondering), so wasn’t a total waste of time.
Well, at least it’s pretty
I know that April showers bring May flowers, but it’s been cloudy and raining off and on for days and I want bright flowers now, so I went to my stash and pulled out this beautiful Malabrigo Nube roving in the Baya Electrica colour.
Malabrigo Nube In Baya Electrica
Plying Sid
Once you actually spin the singles it does’t take that much time to ply them together. There’s only one problem I have with plying…
I kind of felt bad for starting a new spinning project when there’s still work to be done on my WIP list, but then I realized I haven’t done any spinning since July – yikes! It was about time Mabel got some attention.
Singles in progress
