I don' kno' why-yi-yi I love you like I do...

This is the first bobbin. It's what you saw partially filled Monday evening when I first started spinning up the roving.

I am not obsessing over thickness or evenness, just trying to keep it vaguely "a bit thicker than my normal comfort zone"


This is the second bobbin. I can't get a good representation of the colors, which go from a deep purple, through a bright purple, to nearly white, to bright yellow, to deep gold, to a burgandy to a rich purpley-red. I'd have to take a photo every fifteen minutes to show you all the colors, though it does stay mostly in the purple family.

This is the third bobbin. The roving is so springy, I'm already daydreaming about what colorways the company (no website, sorry) might have at the Fall Fiber Fest
this year... They sold their rovings in prepackaged bags of sweater-sized lots and this colorway (Iris) just spoke to me.

This is the fourth bobbin, as it stood five minutes ago. 15 ounces done since beginning Monday and I'm anticipating finishing the final nine ounces by Saturday. Then onto plying. I'm looking forward to seeing how the colors look even more muddled up by plying.


All set for plying, here are the ten storage bobbins so far. I should have 16 or 17 by the time I'm done spinning the singles, then I'll ply them together oldest to newest into a two-ply.

My reasons for doing this are both colorwise - there seems to be a little more yellow and green as I work towards the bottom of the roving, and this will balence that; and also one's spinning tends to gradually move towards ones comfort zone through long projects. I'm aware of that, so I think I'm battling it, but it means that my first spun will be plied with my last spun and balence that out as well.

I think it's going to be a terrific casual sweater that I'm apparently going to have to keep close eye on, judging from all the covetous messages I got this week...

I don't know why I'm so determined to get this spun up this week... I just am....

EDIT:
DONE! Friday at 3:10pm. So 24 oz of wool spun in less than 10 hours of spinning!
Let the Plying Begin!!!