Tue 4 May 2010
I’ve been working away quietly in the background lately, in the moments between, watching a transformation take place.
The hand-dyed fiber has gone from this:
To this:
Which is slowly becoming an increasingly larger pile of these:
All of the colors look more blue in the photos than they really are. When I have more light, I’ll try again on color accuracy. For now, you get the idea.
I am endlessly fascinated. There are more colors in this yarn than I can give names to. Two colors mix, and suddenly emerge as something completely different, something that I love but would never have known how to make. I am learning so much about color from this experiment.
Looking at the fiber, I could not have predicted how the singles would look, and likewise for the singles and the final yarn. This project started as a surprise; I thought I dyed one thing, and I got another.
It hasn’t stopped surprising me yet. And I’m glad it hasn’t. I can’t wait to knit it up and see the next surprise (so soon!).
You are spinning like the wind! And I can see why, given how gorgeous those colors are. I can’t wait to see it knit up, either 🙂
I love to see how roving transforms into the yarn that it is going to be, it never gets old!
Pretty, pretty! What fun transformations.
Wait!? This is the roving you showed us a few posts back???? It is indeed a transformation. One more reason to love spinning – so many surprises.