I have an actual finished skein to show y'all today! This is the first finished skein for the Tour de Fleece 2012.
The original roving was a SW merino from 2IBH. The colorway is "Month of May". This was a gradient colorway, meaning it had long bands of very distinct colors moving from one end to the other, and I knew I wanted to spin this up for socks and maintain the color stripes in it.
With that in mind, I split the 4 oz braid of roving in half lengthwise and checked that I had equal 2-oz halves using my postal scale. I then split each of those 2 oz into 7 (completely arbitrarily) long, skinny strips.
From here, I spun the skinny roving strips into very fine singles. Once that was done, I chain-plied the singles to maintain the colors in separate sections. My plan is to knit this up into simple, basic socks. My final yardage for the 4 oz was 432 yards, so it'll easily translate to any basic sock pattern.
Next on the wheel is a braid of BFL - more on that next week!
All for now....
Okay okay I'll stop complaining about laceweight now. I'm a slacker, clearly.
Posted by: Laurie | July 06, 2012 at 05:05 AM
That is going to make cool socks! Clearly I need to get back to my wheel.
Posted by: Manise | July 06, 2012 at 06:27 AM
Wow those colors are amazing. Came out perfect!!!
Posted by: Christina | July 06, 2012 at 07:58 AM
I'm always amazed by people who can come up with a plan for their spinning and then achieve it. That yarn looks great!
Posted by: Yarndude | July 06, 2012 at 11:25 AM