It turns out that the Spin Along for the Olympics starts on the 15th, whoopsie. Oh well. The ravellenics knit along is going strong. I’m working on my shawl, a little haphazardly but it will get knit. I recieved my February 2018 Paradise Fibers box of the month and I really enjoyed the challenge. They decided to advise that we create a crepe yarn from the supplies they gave us. I decided to go with that choice. I did change things up a bit, while they advised that we spin from the top, first one shade of blue then the other and ply them together from there I modified things. I like carding rolags, not sure why I just get a kick out of them, so I carded the two blues together in a striped rolag formation adding sparkle along the way. I also didn’t use their silk that they provided instead I spun up some of the silk blend I had left-over from december that I tried to dye black. It wound up grey instead but I really like how the yarn turned out. I am also pleased that I have some of the silk blend left.
For the technical side. I spun the silk blend with the wheel going to the right. Then I spun all of the merino blue rolags with the wheel going to the left. Then I put the blues into a center pull ball and plied them with the wheel going to the right. This means that I had a 2 ply yarn and a silk blend singles all from a wheel going to the right. Then I plied the 2 ply with the single on the wheel going to the left. This means that some of the ply twist came undone causing the plied yarn to bubble up a bit.
The effect wasn’t as extreme as I thought it may have been, but truthfully until I work with it I cannot really judge it. I am not sure if I am going to just use this as an example for my students and swatch the heck out of it. or try and make it into a project. It might look cool as a woven purse for example. Who knows. I’ll post progress on my ravellenics and spin along later this week or next. ‘Til then, Happy Crafting!