4. August 2009 14:45
by Jobo
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I finally got around to taking some pictures of my latest yarn...
My dyeing technique was rather haphazard that day, but as usual, the finished yarn has a mind of it's own :) I must have been channelling the local dairy bar because it looks almost exactly like bubblegum ice cream!
After spinning the top randomly (torn into pieces and just randomly strung together) I decided to navajo ply to conserve the gentle stripes. The finished yarn is 14-16 WPI (actually really even! I impressed myself a little) I was really surprised at the way the pinks and blues melded together too - Barberpoles, purple shades, all over gentle mixing. The resulting colour is predominantly a robin-eggy blue with a mix of purples, lavenders, almost fuschia in some segments. Because of the random colour placement, there are some stripes that are meters long, and others that are just short snippits. I tried to be choosy with where my chain "joins" were so as to minimize any abrupt colour changes in the yarn. From the 4 ounce braid I ended up with about 400 yards... so enough to make a decent sized pair of socks. In a lot of ways this is the closest I've gotten to making something that is as thin and even as commercial sock yarn.
