latest yarning

this week has been a little busy since I went out with a friend early on and then took a couple days to spin some yarn and watch the last couple Bond movies I had before returning them.  my latest spinning was an adventure to say the least.  I had a lot of trouble getting the fiber to attach to the leader and almost gave up, but the last try was successful and I went ahead and worked up about an ounce of practice.

yesterday I plied them together and what I had thought was going to be a muted rainbow of sorts, it turned out really "fall-ey".  by this I mean, the colors while separate didn't take too much of a scheme, when spun and plied, resulted in a very pumpkin color.  I was disappointed, if you get right down to it.  I tried a new plying method, chain plying or navajo plying.  It's a way to keep your colors together when you are spinning stripey yarn and still produce a 3 ply (like) yarn from singles.

I certainly didn't master the technique by any means, but it was good practice from a small batch of fiber and did give me insight on how colors change when they are spun.

Take a look -


the fiber before it's spun - looked pretty evenly colored
 
after it was spun - it's very yellow and orange


for comparison - this is the fiber that the following skein was made
looks balanced right?  the yellow is very bright and prominent
 
then when spun into singles, to help with the variegation,
it's very blue/purple

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