Spinning - FO and update

I finished a spinning thing! That doesn't happen often, so it's worth celebrating. I made 400 meters of yarn from 85grams of yarn, so it's a teeny bit finer than I thought it would come out. That might me in part because it was an amazing preparation from Charley of Ixchel, comprising of merino, cashmere, angora and sparkle. I was thinking of it as my contrast colour for Waiting for Rain and and it's stunning, although it might be a bit more autumnal and subtle than I want.

While I'm thinking about the neon rainbow I want to be spinning, I'm working on the main colour for Waiting for Rain, which is a black with tweed bits, again from Ixchel.

This pic from Charley's site, because I forgot to take a photo of the unspun fibre.

I'm going to ply it with some black mohair/silk (commercially spun) so that it should be quite interesting. I'm trying to spin it so the neps don 't get too stretched out,and I'm ok with some texture in the spinning.

I've been spinning away, and even though I'm happy with the yarn I'm getting, it does feel a little like I'm making it up as I go along. I haven't done any formal spinning learning since I did my first beginners course. So I joined Craftsy (again). They had some weird drama where they renamed themselves BluePrint and then disappeared, but now they are back and offering a year for $3. Good deal. All the old content is there, and today I'm doing a class from 2014 with JC Bloggs about different kinds of drafting. There is also a class on spinning colour and another on dying that I'm going to do. So now I I've got some fun learning to get me through this (final?) lockdown.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

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