Spinning WIP

I promised spinning projects yesterday and I deliver. First is some roving I've got on my wheel. The roving is superwash merino from Royal Hare (grabbed the last bit from their booth at Stitches West, unspun sample first). I can't wait to see what it turns into when I ply it on itself.

















And of course there are all of the all of the dye experiments Thuy and I have been trying out. Everything that isn't the Royal Hare roving up above is wool that we dyed with food coloring. Some of it is from the supermarket and some is Wilton's cake frosting dye. The colors are just amazing although we aren't certain how colorfast it all is.

Towards the bottom is some of it spun up both on one of my Bossie's and in a 2-ply where I just folded what I had in half and let it twist back on itself. The stuff in the shot with the spindle is BFL that I have several pounds of from John and Marsha up in Solvang. The rest is some unknown beasty that Barbara (Monday night spinning group) had in her stash and shared with us. It was dirty and fairly rough stuff but it cleaned up and softened up a bit in the dye bath and more junk came out when I spun up the first sample so it isn't too bad. Barbara was so impressed that she's going to be sending the rest of the stuff our way to play with (thanks Barbara!!!). I'd turn the stuff into fun socks except that food coloring has been known to bleed and dye your skin. I really don't think I need multicolored toes just yet so I'll have to come up with another project for it all.