Remember the cotton/rayon roving that I dyed?



Well here you go:



Not the greatest of pictures, I just snapped it rather quickly this morning. But the variations in the greens is translating very nicely into the single. Yellow green through blue green through a deeper green. The colors are not as saturated as I would have liked, I don't really like the fact that these are all tints of green instead of shades of green (I do tend towards the darker end of the spectrum usually). And ignore the really dark stuff at the right end of the bobbin. That's leader yarn. I've only spun about three foot long sections of roving so I haven't even covered the whole length of the bobbin yet.

But I think this will make a nice workable yarn when it's completed. The spun single is tight without being crisp and I think after plying and washing it will be a middling kind of cotton feel. Not the silky softness of shiny mercerized, but not the rough plainness of cotton t-shirt either. I think this will be a good knitting yarn.

I've been stripping the roving in half when I tear off a section, using one half and saving the other so that I can make a second bobbin with comparable color shifts. This will give me some options when plying, since I could two ply, or chain ply, or what I'm considering doing, using both bobbins simultaneously to chain ply, giving me a six ply final yarn fairly effortlessly (famous last words I'm sure). I have a total of 4 ounces of roving, so I can also do four bobbins and try cable plying.

Don't expect to see final yarn for years though. I hardly ever get time to sit at the spinning wheel. But I do love it when I do. This batch was spun while watching "Peaceful Warrior" which seemed rather appropriate actually.