Well That Was Handy

Or I should say convenient. I hope it's a long time before I have to say "was Handy". Yikes!



A friend called yesterday asking if I had any brown yarn. She was repairing a rug and needed something that would blend in. There are several "browns" over here so I was sure we could come up with something and told her to come on over and bring a sample.







A mix of dark brown, red brown and a little grayish white. Let's see... B. Willard and Marcel's lamb fleeces! I ran a bit of both one pass through the carder to blend it just a bit. It needed to be pretty evenly mottled.







I worried though that if I tried to spin directly from the pulled roving that I'd get stretches of solid dark and stretches of solid light, not a consistent blend so I ended up separating it back out and spinning one bit of each and then plying them together.



I spun both the singles and the two ply a little tighter than I'd spin for knitting or weaving so the yarn would be as strong as possible.







And ta-dah! I think it looks pretty close. The sample piece is marked with a star.



Score one for the hand spinners. You can't get that at Wal-Mart :-).