The Tradition
Day 23 is called Cavalcade of Lights and the tradition comes from Canada. An annual festival that has been held in Toronto since 1967. The Nathan Phillips square is decorated with upwards of half a million(!) lights and a giant Christmas tree which is usually around 18 metres high. There is an opening night celebration with live performances, the lighting of the city's official Christmas Tree and nightly ice skating and festive lights for the entire festive season.
The Fibre
The actual fibre content is 40% Merino (Charcoal), 30% Corriedale (Raven), 30% Tussah Silk (Lemon, Acai & Taro). This is a very bright blend. This is Merino, Corriedale and Tussah Silk. The lights are best seen at night which is why we have black Merino and black Corriedale in this because that makes the Tussah Silk colours pop and they are so vibrant, look at these coming through here. So just like the lights you will see the shimmer and the sheen in this. This is a very Silk heavy blend, we've got the wool in to help contain it all otherwise the Silk will just run away with you anytime you try to do anything. In terms of spinning, take this one slowly. If you do a finer yarn you might loose the colours because this hasn't been overly blended if you break it up very carefully you may just be able to get a black and blue or bit of black and yellow. Alternatively if you spin from the fold you can get all sorts of different colours coming though randomly.
My Thoughts
Oooh, I got excited about this one. It is so different looking to most other blends. Those bight silk colours really pop against the black wool. The silk is not blended in so it may be possible to separate the silk colours out away from the black wool and then I can think of two ways to spin it. You could break it up into short lengths and re-combine individual colours of silk with the black so that you have everchanging pops of colour against the black and then maybe chain ply to keep the colours together or you could spin the black and the spin the coloured silk as two separate singles and then ply them together but this does rely on there being the same amount of coloured silk as there is wool and there isn't but it might be possible to do a three ply of 2 black and 1 coloured. Another way it to just split it down the length in thin strips, ensuring that there is both black and colour in each strip and then just spin from the end and its up to you if you want to do a 2 ply, 3 ply or chain ply or something else. The camera on my phone captured most of the colours but my proper Canon camera has done a slightly better job.
The information that has been printed on the bags is not always correct and there are no fibre content percentages, these have been provided on the chat boards. The percentages that they gave on the chat boards seem to be correct.
What I have done with my bags is to write the actual fibre content on the bag using a gold gel pen in the gap immediately below the printed details, pretty much the only thing that will show up on black are the metallic gel pens. This is why I have not taken "new" photos of the bags.
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