Not letting the grass grow under my feet I am straight on with the next braid of fibre which is from the fibre club back in March 2020. It is called Boat Race and is 70% Merino, 30% Viscose and is lots of shades of blues and a bit of green, watery colours, but it is put together in such a way that is near impossible to pull all the colours out separately. I could have perhaps managed to pull a few colours out but I would need really good natural light to do that and at this time of year that just isn't really available so I have had to try to keep the different colours as visible as possible in a different way.
What I actually did was to split it in half and then I just spun from the end without any pre-drafting, as that would encourage the colours to blend, and I tried to follow the strips of colour as it entered the draft zone, so if some dark blue entered the draft zone I would try to follow the thin strip of dark blue fibres for several inches and then latch on to another shade and follow that. My intention was to make as variegated a yarn as I could and not to allow the colours to blend too much. I'm not sure I actually managed to achieve that but I tried.
It has spun up to sport weight and there is 100g/300m.
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