A little photoshoot this morning! I had to run some fibre through the drum carder before I could spin today – it’s the pink and grey batt (WoW “Something Fishy”, Corrie/Sari) on the left. That was a single run through the carder. I have already spun 50g of this top without carding (3rd from left), and I have 2 more bumps left. I’ll send one through the drum carder twice, and the 3rd three times. I have vague plans of knitting this into a “texture fade” (as opposed to the usual colour fade) item to demonstrate the effect of carding. Because this colourway is sold out at WoW, I’ll probably have to bulk the project out with some John Arbon Knit By Numbers in a toning shade, like the mini-skein 4th from the left.
Second from the left is a 50g bump of the original top – see how clumpy-lumpy it is!?!
At the top, and in close-up below to avoid distraction, is my Day 1/2 spin of WoW’s TdF mystery spinalong, “A Clue”, wound off onto a storage bobbin with my trusty drill. It’s lovely bits of green, brown and cream that has come out as little runs of barberpoling between all the constituent colours. I’ll probably 2-ply it in the next day or two.
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