TdF - Day 11 - The Simi

It felt like it took forever to be done, and it fought me with nails and teeth, but here is The Simi:

It gave me 710 yards, heavy laceweight, and a long gradient:

Very, very happy.

Superwash merino/tencel blend, dyed by Fiberoptic.

TdF - Day 8

I'm a little disappointed that I didn't finish even one skein before the first week ended, but I'm close to, now.

All that’s left from the black part of the sw merino/tencel is the same ammount of fiber that’s on the singles spindle now, so soon I’ll be ready to ply everything. The question is, will I be able to fit it all in one skein? The last 2 cops that I added to the plying spindle were already difficult to handle…

TdF Day 3

I finally reached the point in my gradient where the fibers have both black and pink in them, where the colour runs on the top met. Most of it has both colours in one staple lenght, in little handfuls of fiber. So I thought that was an acceptable reason to use pre-drafting. I grabbed many, many of these puffs and pre-drafted them together, then divided in 4, pre-drafted the 4 pieces together again, repeated a few times, and pulled the fiber through a diz, to have a (kinda) cohesive strip of fiber again. It's about the same thickness as the original top, but less compact. And not completely cohesive, but I think that's because it's superwash, and 50% tencel.

It a little like roving pulled from batts:

The little ball are the singles from days 1&2, with the baby pink end of the gradient on the outside. I have since then started spinning singles from the new strips of fiber, navajo-plied the first singles, and dipped my toes on the black silk for the other project.

Days 1 & 2

I thought I'd spin a little of each project every day, but I'm so curious to see how the sw merino/tencel will look when ready that I'm focusing on it. Unfortunately I'm way too slow. I think in these two days I only spun about 1oz of it. I'm finding the fiber a little hard to draft sometimes, while at other times it slides all the way down and the spindle falls. But it was heavy, so I unloaded the first cop and started the second already. Always spinning from the not-pre-drafted top:

And for a while, from 2 not-pre-drafted tops:

That was a little crazy, but I have an excuse. I'm trying to spin in a colour gradient, so I wanted to blend two shades. I want light pink -> dark pink -> black.