As the wheel turns…

I have been gazing longingly at my spinning wheel for weeks now. Our schedule has been super busy since I got home from the Spinning Summit on October 1, and I’ve just now returned to my Ladybug.

I grabbed this bump of Polwarth-Silk from Sheepspot (the Breed School shipment from last May – I’m behind!) and considered it. I pulled it apart to see how the colors lined up:

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep the colors clear or to blend them. I decided to blend, since I don’t do that very often and I’m trying to shake things up a bit. The yellow-green part is roughly one third of the fiber, and it is also the strongest color. What if I made a 3-ply yarn with one ply of the greenish yellow, one of gray, and one of blue? Would the two calmer colors tone down the bright one? The blues and grays might overlap some. It might look sorta like this?

Readers, I actually sampled. I almost never do this!!! I spun those three pieces onto a single bobbin but separated them with a little bit of bright red fiber. Then I moved the singles to three storage bobbins (the red told me when to change bobbins) and made a tiny skein of 3-ply.

I liked it well enough to keep going. I’ve found that making a little time to spin each morning before leaving for work, and each evening before going to bed, is very centering for me. In the whirl that December is, I really appreciate it. So even though I feel like I have no time to spin, I will have a new skein of handspun soon. This is my kind of self-care!