I have done a lot of spinning since my Robin wheel arrived. It seems that I have a backlog of fiber in the stash.

I love spinning Bluefaced Leicester. It puffs up so nicely when steamed in the microwave. (What, you say?)
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The fiber is from Pinetree Farms shop. Cindy and I went absolutely nuts over this woman's booth in Rhinebeck. She had fiber to spin and some of the most beautiful multicolored skeins of yarn.

The delightful thing about these skeins was that they were spun out of rainbow roving and when plied, not one of the colors plied to the same color. So no green to green or brown to brown. It was all mixed up. Sounds easy to do, right?

Well....I have been trying to replicate that and have had a few problems.

For this skein, I tore the roving apart after 2 repeats of the colors. Then I flipped them around so none of the colors matched up. Then I began predrafting and finally spun each roving onto its own bobbin.

Logically, since the colors were flipped and I made sure they didn't match up before the predrafting was done, then the plied should've gotten close to my plan.

As you can see, it didn't and it didn't. It started out with green plying to green for a good 30 yards, then all was good. Not bad for a first try.

What I am going to do in the future is ply coordinating rovings together to guarantee that same colors do not ply together.