The Sun Has Come Out!
We will not be traveling back to IA for the funeral. DH says grandma would want us to have dessert and smile, not be all weepy. And, I have to say he’s quite right… Thank you to everyone for your words of support. I have passed it along to DH and his sister who lives here in town.
Now, onto the topic of the post…
Okay, so I happen to be blessed (though sometimes in the summer I feel cursed) to live in any area that generally only has 30-40 totally overcast days each year. However, the sun is shining in my basement right now…
Remember the photo of using the mini clamp yesterday? Well, I didn’t say much about what was being spun there. Let’s take a closer look…
You can’t see it real well here and I should have taken a photo sooner, but you can see that these singles will be progressing from an orange to a yellow. Both rovings had spots of the other color in them, but to make the transition smoother, I draft both together when I had about 18 inches or so of predrafted orange left. So, the color transition should be a bit smoother. Though I didn’t take into account the Navajo plying when I did it so it probably won’t appear as a very smooth transition when knit. But, I was happy with how well it worked to draft from both slivers at the same time when I took the time to properly prepare the fibers.
I’m also quite pleased with the thiness I’m able to achieve. I think I’m slowly increase the speed at which I can draft evenly, but to try reduce the overtwist I was getting I decided to go for a finer single. I have to say that the overtwist is much less! And, part of me wants to resist the Navajo plying for the moment use this as a single to knit a lace scarf for my SIL3 who is a HUGE fan of yellows and oranges. But, then part of me things about what a bargain this fiber was, which kinds of lessens the pressure to have a really good ply, which makes it tempting to go ahead and ply it. But, then again, if I didn’t ply it then the color transitions when knit would be smoother. Sometimes I really such at decisions!
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