First yarn from rolags

Back in October I was at an antique store and was inspired to make a lemon yellow and robin egg blue yarn from some enamel pots.  yellow rolags, blue rolags, merino, batts, fiber batts

I made some beautiful rolags from merino, tussah silk, and some wool locks. il_570xN.116869084

It was the first time that I
used my blending board
correctly! I didn’t research
how to use the blending
board before I used it earlier
this year, so I didn’t know that
I’m supposed to draft the
rolags while I’m rolling them off.

closeup rolags 2closeup rolags
The rolags were fun to spin. The locks were beautiful when spun. Here are the 2 bobbins before they are plied together.

spun 1
close up spun I spun the yellow single a little thicker than the blue, so the effect is that when I plied, the thinner blue single is wrapped slightly around the yellow single.

lemon enamel closeup
hand spun yarn

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