I finished the spinning on my Ashford Sliver, and learned a valuable lesson in splitting and spinning one's fibre evenly. I imagine what happened here was that I was still getting used to the wheel, and ended up with uneven tension on each bobbin.The finished 2-ply skein is approximately 180m of soft yumminess - I'm planning on making a cowl for myself with this so I can show it off.
The remained didn't go to waste though. Following a suggestion from Constanza, I tried chain plying the leftover single. There was much cursing and stomping of feet, but I finally yielded up about 35m of chain plyed yarn.. which I of course forgot to take a picture of.
The next project I had ready to go. I had a couple of colours of Bronte Glen Merino, and I wanted to try my hand at blending the colours to make a graduated yarn. My increments were 100% steel blue, 75% blue 25% white, 50% blue and white, 25% blue 75% white and 100% white, which I weighted out and combed to blend. I span each colour segment completely before moving on to the next, hoping this would keep the colour distribution even, and I think I got a little closer to being spot on in my plying.
This came out as a lovely springy worsted weight yarn, approx. 142
meters, though I haven't decided what I'm going to do with it yet.
And there may also have been a bun cake interlude. Because all this spinning is hungry work...
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