Some roving followed me home. Can I keep it?
April 24th, 2006 at 8:35 pm (spinning)
I suppose it’s hard to say it followed me when the postman is the one who brought it. I came home today to find this yummy pile waiting for me:
Ordered from Chameleon Colorworks, Each chain is 4oz of BFL (Blue Faced Leicester). Iris on top and Hyacinth on the bottom. It’s always a gamble when you order colors based on what you see on your monitor. Overall I’m very pleased. The fiber feels soft and I can still see crimp in the roving; so it should be very nice to spin, which is really the point.
As for colors – The Hyacinth has the colors I expected, although I wish it had a bit less of the green in it as I think it’d balance better with more blue and purple in it. Lucikly since I’m spinning it I can take some of the green out if I want to. The other one was more of a surprise; and more two tone than I expected. Looking back at the website; both match fairly well what I saw there; although the Iris showed more variation in the website picture, and I was amazed at how deep the colors are.
It’ll be a bit of time before I can get to spinning these; I still have to ply up my first set of purple merino/cashmere and I’ve got another batt of sheep to shawl warp to spin up.
Mom said,
April 26th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Would it do any good to say “no?” but then who wants to give something as beautiful as this back. No us! Pretty roving. =)