About three weeks ago, I blogged about some Sock Stuff! I bought from Freyalyn. This is her Lime and Cedar colourway. Freyalyn dyes this herself and uses the bits that are left on the commercial machines that produce roving for spinning. The best thing about it is that its 80% merino and 20% nylon.
Because its the ends off the machines, it needed a bit of processing to be nice to spin. This afternoon has been spent carding and watching 'The Darling Buds of May' which I recently bought on DVD. The fibre now looks like this, a mountain of fluffiness!
I actually got three different colours out of the darker greens and there is some variation in the lime but not enough to bother separating it out.
The first picture (with flash) shows the varying shades of the dark greens better but makes the lime look nuclear! Its not quite that bright. This second picture shows the lime green more accurately. Hmmmm.... maybe it is nuclear. I've just looked at the photos again and the lime is, well, pretty bright. I can't wait to spin this!
I'm sorry but i've now got "You put the lime in the coconut" fuzzing around my head - and I'm just off to bed, it's going to drive me mad all night now!!! - Love those colours, can't wait to see how they spin up!
Posted by: Auntie Noo | October 29, 2006 at 12:11 AM
Those colours look so pretty together. I can't wait to see what you do with it.
Posted by: Rain | October 29, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Oh I can't wait to see those knitted up. They'll look real funky I bet
Posted by: Silvia | November 02, 2006 at 04:29 AM