Sometimes You Just Want Easy
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Ah, yes, lovely. I needed a break from the possum, the monochrome, the fur. I spun up a teeny bit of two different superwash merino pencil rovings (probably 4 oz. total)I had in the stash (this is the Tour de Fleece and all). One colorway was clled “May Flowers” and was white with lavender, sage green, and yellow. Not my favorite colors, but I liked how it spun up–as usual, the roving utterly belies the single.
(I wish I had taken pics of the roving stage.) The second colorway is called “Faith,” and it’s all sorts of peachy-pinks.
The two were not an obvious match, at least not to me, but I had this niggling curiosity… I suspected the muted greens in the first single might simultaneously make the pinks “pop” and also subdue the overall yarn, while the purples (which tended to be darker) and the whites (lighter, naturally) would add interesting contrast and complexity.
So I plied. It took much less plying than the possum, so my first few yards were a snarly mess, but in the end I was delighted with the result. The merino is stupendously soft, and has so much sheen that I would think it had some silk if I didn’t know better. Also, it doesn’t get any easier than pencil roving.
(Rovings procured on ebay at http://stores.ebay.com/THE-SPECIAL-TEA-SHOP)