I Ply Beauty

The result of the experimental purple-pink-orange dyeing had been a disappointment — for a moment, I considered not spinning it at all.  It might turn out alright or it might turn out awful but, either way, it just wasn’t me.  Why spend the time on it?

But, I wasn’t brought up to waste, so I  spun it anyway — and I was even more disappointed when I did.  The first bobbin was passable, with its gaudy-but-cheeky bright pink sections that really lifted the overall colour combination, and the long sections of pale pink that added softness…

But the second bobbin was just awful.  Awful.  It came out purple then orange then purple then orange.  There was no bright pink at all, and the pale pink was almost totally lost in the spinning.  It came out looking like a sweaty, stinky high school football uniform…

I despaired.  I had planned on Navajo plying them but, whilst that might work passably well with the first bobbin, it would simply exacerbate everything that was wrong with the second.  No, the key here was damage limitation — I’d have to try plying them together in the hopes that that could do something to make it all a bit less awful.

To my surprise, it did.  It really did.  In fact, plying them together created a yarn that was so beautiful, so sublime, and  so amazingly gorgeous that I can’t stop looking at it.  It has the colours of a stormy sunset.  I  just want to stick my faced into it and rub it all around.  I am in love!

Yardage:

Large skein — 58 yards, 20 inches

Small skein — 32 yards, 26 inches