When I first got a big batch of Falkland roving from Cosy many months ago, the colors made me think of baby chicks and ducklings. I spun up all the braids and had a bunch of bobbins full of singles. I finally sat down one day last week to ply all those bobbins into a kind of thick and thin 2-ply yarn. As it happens, while I was busy plying, Cosy was busy giving birth to her beautiful son.
Anyway, once I had a full bobbin of 2-ply, I wound it off onto the skeinwinder and took it over to lay on the kitchen counter ready to set the twist in a good hot water bath. When I glanced up at the fruit bowl, I noticed that the colors in the yarn were very close to the colors of the bananas and plantains in the bowl. So now I don't know whether the yarn reminds me of baby chicks and ducklings or bananas and plantains.
Whatever it reminds me of, there's a lot of it - 833 yards. I knit up a gauge swatch and got 4 stitches to the inch on US 8 needles. The gauge swatch bloomed as a rustic, 'made by loving hands at home' fabric, and I like it. So now I'll be searching Ravelry for a simple sweater pattern that will let this simple yarn speak for itself.
1 comments:
That yarn is absolutely gorgeous! Now I'm wanting to pull out my wheel and spin the rest of the day!
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