58) Quality time with the drumcarder

Sunday saw an unexpected lull in the crazy merry-go-round that has been my life over the last couple of months, so I spent much of the day lazing around and playing with wool

The dyed fleece from a last week made a whole bunch of fluffy batts, which co-ordinate very well with the lusciously flowering lavendar bushes.  The waste from the drum carder was incorporated into a final mixed batt, somewhat neppy and badly photographed:

But where's the pink, you ask??  Ah, yes, the pink:

It really is quite pink, isn't it?

You see, this is my first attempt at using Rod, Jane and Freddy to re-create a Noro-Kureyon style yarn, all of my own.  And it seems traditional - if not downright mandatory - to include a somewhat crazy colour in each skein - why not pink?

I have, actually, spun most of a bobbin full of loose, fluffy singles already, and have started on the second.  Kureyon, despite popular received wisdom, is actually a two ply yarn, so I'm weighing carefully, and hoping that my colours will line up when I come to ply the stuff.

Comments

[Tempewytch]

Muted, muted, muted, PINK, muted, muted - it really stands out against the others there! Are these now finished or do you do something else with them?