Created By Artsygal

I've gotten lax about posting on Fridays recently but this week I'm back with a vengence. Let me start with a picture of the roving itself. This is about 6 oz of corriedale fiber - the last of the 1 lb of white corriedale I bought several months ago when I wasn't sure if I wanted to spin or not.

Colourful isn't it? I used just red, blue, black, yellow, and teal to achieve all those colours. Lots of fun!

Then I sat down at the wheel. I didn't really have a strategy for this roving - instead I just tore of strips haphazardly, and spun from them. The goal was to get a single that was fairly consistent, and would have just enough twist in it to hold it together since I was hoping to be able to keep it as a single instead of plying.

I had so much fun watching the colours emerge that part way through spinning, I just had to take the bobbin/flyer off the wheel and prop it up outside to get a picture. I'm sure that the guys climbing up the outside walls of my apartment building to replace the gutters thought I was nuts to be taking pictures of yarn. I'm not entirely sure that they're wrong.

It was a bittersweet moment when I came to the end of this roving. I had produced my best yarn to date on the wheel, and I felt that by dyeing it myself and then spinning it, I've created something truly unique. However, it also meant that I was OUT of roving! I couldn't believe how quickly I went through 6 oz! When I first bought the 1 lb of roving, I was teaching myself on a CD spindle and felt that the 1 lb would last me forever as I was spending most of my time picking the spindle off the floor. Then I had a lesson and bought a real spindle - that sped the process up considerably, but I was still spinning fairly fine weight yarns, so the 1 lb still seemed quite substantial. Now with a bulky wheel, even while trying to spin a single that comes to about DK weight (maybe? Probably a bit thicker, I'm really bad at this)I swallowed up the last 6 oz in just a couple of evenings! I could easily see my self going through 1 lb a week at this rate!

I think this is the beginnings of an expensive addiction!

To see the yarn in its full glory, click the image below. I've sized it large enough to use as your desktop wallpaper on your computer. All you have to do is right click the larger image and select 'Set as desktop background' if you want to use it. Enjoy!