This is the second of three little packs of fibre brought from an online shop called The Rainbow Room in her closing down sale. This rainbow coloured pack contained 20 different colours of Merino Wool.
I wanted to spin another rainbow but I had an idea, let's make it a sparkly rainbow as I had just bought some Angelina fibre in different colours. I matched the different colour Angelina fibre as closely as I could to the Merino fibre and just added in the Angelina as I drafted and spun the Merino.
I kept it as a single because it looked so lovely but when I took it off my niddy-noddy it resembled rainbow spaghetti. I had overspun it. I corrected this by running it quickly back through my wheel in the opposite direction to take out some of the overtwist, don't want to remove too much as then it will fall apart, but just enough to straighten it out. See the difference between the bottom two photos? That's what I'm talking about!
I managed to get 286m from 128g and its about a light fingering weight yarn and its really soft, squishy and sparkly.
Again, choosing the right project for this was a bit of a task but I settled on making a cowl.
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