My Boyfriend's Back
Don't tell John, but I've been hanging out with my Boyfriend quite a bit lately.
I'm a little over halfway through my first bobbin of "My Boyfriend's Back", another batch of superwash roving from Crown Mountain Farms. This picture is not entirely representative of the roving, because the bit I had just spun had a lot of white areas in it. I don't know if Teyani does this intentionally, but in both batches I have spun so far, half of the roving has a good deal more open white area than the other half. For stripey sock yarn, this is an excellent thing, because those white areas help to set up a lot of nice contrasty stripes.
What makes me most happy is that while this area has lighter red areas, it really doesn't veer into the land of pink. It maintains a sort of stately and sedate deep red color (I know, I know, the photo reads pink, but that is because the color defiition is a bit poor in this flash picture).. So far, this color has been mostly acceptable to the male for whom the yarn is being spun. Because he has bigger feet than I do, I decided that rather than spinning it up in 4 ounce batches, I would divide the roving in half and spin it all up as one batch (I mean one batch made up of two plys, not one single ply) so as to have one solid continuous yarn. I still have a lot of spinning to go, but I am already at that place where I can't wait to ply and see what shows up!
Big thanks to everyone who left supportive words for me yesterday. I am working on the socks, and the more I knit, the happier I get with what I see. My Sloopy yarn is like knitting with sunshine, and the fabric is firm but soft, so I think I will have a good and durable sock. Good therapy for the grey rainy weather we are getting in Chicago right now.
I know exactly what you mean about the white areas as I found that to be true of the "Twist and Shout" roving as well. I finished plying it yesterday. I got about 550 yards. May I ask how many yards you're getting from Teyani's sock hop roving?
I am always envious of your yarn. It looks so nice and I keep thinking that I should get back to the wheel, but time is always an issue.
Thats beautiful handspun!
It looks red to me. =) Kinda a more manly version of 'neopolitan' colors... It will look interesting knitted up, I think. And I love the 'sunshine' yarn you spun. It will look beautiful as socks!
I've had the same experience with their rovings. I've spun two of the superwash rovings now as 4 ounce lots [They've all been gifted as individual skeins] and I'm amazed at the difference between the two halves. It's interesting to see.
Yes, the white is indeed intentional - for the purpose of making the barberpole yarn. What we do is to split the hank into three sections prior to spinning - light, medium and dark, and then randomly spin from each section, so that the lightest part is spread throughout. makes for some deep striping :-)
Speaking of manly socks--back to your query of 11/13--Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport is superwash (and even stands up to the velcro closure of my daughter's ballet bag) also Debra @ DZined has a wool/hemp/mohair blend that knits up on 3's and she currently has some plummy gray.
One of the main reasons I wish I could spin is so i could spin the Crown Mountain Farm Sock Hop roving. I ordered 4 skeins of the yarn yesterday, I had been waiting what seems liek forever to get some so when they e-mailed saying they had some to sell there was no way I was missing out. I now what anxiously for delivery.
From what I understand she deliberately colors the roving light, medium, dark from one end to the other . . .
Mmm, I already like what it's doing on the bobbin. Do you navajo ply the singles to stripe them, or just spin to carefully planned bobbins?
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