I bought this yarn in April 2020, so about 4 and a half years ago-ish and at a time when I was looking around for alternative fibre suppliers. It is from an independent spinning fibre retailer who buys in undyed fibre and dyes it themselves and then sells it. There are a lot of small businesses that do this and whilst they can be pretty they are also quite limited in terms of fibre content as they wouldn't contain any sparkle element or they wouldn't be a solid shade with different colours of texture etc and sometimes the dyer accidentally felts the fibre a little, which is easily done and I've done it a few times myself over the years. Thankfully that is not the case in this instance, it's so soft. The original fibre is from John Arbon Textiles.
I wanted to try and keep the variation of colours in the finished yarn as much as possible but I also didn't want it to form splodges of colour so I split it down the length, one for each ply, and spun it over the fold.
For the second single I started spinning from the other end, again over the fold, and this way when I plied the two singles together there was less chance of the same colours coming together all the way through the yarn. Of course the colours probably do come together at times but hopefully, for the most part, it has barber-pole the colours.
This measures up to 16wpi - Light Fingering Weight and there is 110g/478m. The fibre content is 80% Bluefaced Leicester, 20% Mulberry Silk
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