During Week 2 of the DIY and Dye Group's Tour de Fleece journey, we had more challenges to choose from as normal. I chose to do an art yarn with my olive leaf dyed Cotswold fleece that I wrote about here.
I spun a bobbin of the fleece that I'd carded before TdF started,
made it into a centre-pull ball and plied from both ends together, at the same time inserting "bits" of pulled fleece between the two plies. I used some merino that I'd dyed in previous years for TdF :-
Top left was dyed with blood peaches from the tree in my garden (blood peaches are bright red all the way through to the stone), top right was logwood chips, bottom left was with madder, and I forget what the green was!
The plying was pretty slow, but worked together well.
The finished skein weighed just over 100g giving me 199 yards/184 metres.
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