This is a cornucopia of leftover wool roving from various hand-dying and spinning projects we have worked on over the years. Each piece in this particular stash has been waiting until there was MORE of something or other in order to be finished into a project. Waiting isn’t as fun as creating. So, what if . . . ?
What if we create a series of color mixing experiments with what there is now? With the notion of using this blog post series to play around, we added a step in between selecting and then blending the roving for spinning to cause us to need to use (and choose) colors in a new way before blending. That step was to make a 3-D fiber illustration first. We have created a multi-part series based on the steps of spinning these images into yarn.
Our hope is that it will amuse non-spinners, intrigue people contemplating starting wool spinning, and encourage adept spinners to try more ways to enjoy the process.
Before reading the next few blog posts imagine how you would mix these colors (feel free to imagine them mingling with your own stash!)