Velvet Rope
From this....
to this…
Fiber: 100% Blue Faced Leicester (Superwash)
Colorway: Velvet Rope
Yardage/Weight: 330 yards/about 8 oz. (3-ply)
Roving From: Black Bunny Fibers Fiber Club (February 2008)
Notes: This was even more fun to spin than the last one; but I may have been initially partial to it as BFL is about my favorite fiber to spin. As I expected, this was easy to draft, and as soft as clouds. At first I set out to get something the same weight as Emerald City, thinking that combining the red and green into something together might be very Christmas-ish later this year. But even with a 3-ply it was too thin to match up, and honestly I found myself dreaming about another Faux Fair Isle sweater as I was spinning (but what color do do the body of the sweater? For some reason the red kept telling me it wants to be paired with a white, but… that is just a recipe for me to spill coffee on myself. I should not be allowed to have white clothes). Anyway; I got about 300 yards of the 3-ply, but due to my inability to judge correctly, I also wound up with a small 30-yard skein of 2-ply. Whoops! Haha on me!
I really enjoyed spinning this; I found that I had to force myself to keep spinning some other merino/silk that I need to get off the bobbins so that I could have a free bobbin to ply back onto. I hate to crow or make other spinners jealous, but will anyway for those of you not in the BBF Fiber club...? You are really going to want to keep an eye on Carol’s blog to see when she’s going to open it up for more people.
Mostly I just want to fondle this yarn for a while… but I am certain that as the weather cools down to fall that you’ll be seeing this again. After all, I’ll need a sweater for New York Sheep and Wool, right?!
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Very, very nice. Mine is still unspun, though I must admit I have something else of hers on both wheels. Gotta spin more...
Posted by mindy on March 23, 2008 at 06:36 PM | #
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