Last week I broke down and ordered some gray fingering weight yarn and this fiber for spinning despite being on a stash-only thing right now. But I promise and swear that neither of these are for me. Well, I mean, I’ll be knitting the yarn into a project. And I’ll be spinning the fiber into yarn. But neither are destined to reside in my possession whatsoever – they’re being shipped off as part of the package I made those stitch markers for.
The fiber is Ashland Bay Colonial Wool in Northern Lights. I had a hard time capturing the colors of it – the brown is less noticeable in person. I ordered it because the hints of color reminded me of space. Not the ‘all black (or dark blue) with white starlights’ that we see when we look up to the sky, but rather those pictures you see that are colorized. Like this one. I read somewhere once that the coloring of the space images we see are a photoshop-type thing based on a variety of data, so who knows what some of the things out in the universe actually look like color-wise. Hubble has a whole thing on how they do the colors, if you’re interested.
I believe I’m going to try spinning this a bit thicker than my ‘usual’ yarns (which are always as thin as I can spin). I just don’t have the kind of time necessary for a high-yardage, thin yarn when this project is on a deadline. I’m also hoping that, with spinning it thicker, you’ll notice the colors a bit more. I’ve noticed, on a different colorway of the same fiber, that the colors tend to blend an awful lot when I’ve spun it thin. I want to keep this yarn with the colors more visible. So we’ll see how that works out, I guess.
