Spinning experiment

Before we left for our vacation, I was one of the lucky recipients of some hand-dyed pencil roving from Rachel. As most of you know, I got my wheel in January so I'd consider myself a rank beginner. Since I was testing it, I gave myself permission to play. I'm pretty pleased with what I came up with:

The one on the far left is navajo-plied slightly thick and thin yarn, the middle is two singles plied together, and the right one is a very thick-and-thin singles plied with some thread from Superior Threads (using Highlights, one of my all-time favorite machine quilting threads).

And some gratuitous close-up pictures:



Kinda fun!! I still have to measure them for WPI and I haven't measured the yardage yet. I want to try knitting with them, although I'm not sure what--probably just some stockinette pieces with garter-stitch borders, just to play. I figure that I can always rip them out and re-knit if a better project comes along!

You can go to Rachel's blog for some pictures of what other people have done with her roving.

Thanks, Rachel, for the roving!

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And yes, LisaK, I'm working on more pictures of the trip. :-)