{"id":1254,"date":"2011-12-22T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-12-22T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T12:40:21","slug":"and-so-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"And So It Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, it has taken me long enough, but I am finally updating my blog about the gradient spin along that Kimber of Fiber Optic<\/a> had over on Ravelry<\/a>. There were a lot of beautiful yarns spun up by people, some of whom even knit up the yarn in the time of the spin along. (Talk about over-achievers!)<\/p>\n

When Kimber announced the spin-along, I immediately knew which of the gradients I was going to spin up.<\/p>\n

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Kimber had started offering pre-orders on a gradient every other week, and I believe this is the first one that I got in on. But while having the gradient picked out, I wasn’t sure how I was going to spin it, just what I was going to spin it for: to weave a scarf as a practice for a bigger project later on. Then it occurred to me, I could do something similar to what Deb Menz does in her book, Color in Spinning<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, I took the fiber and divided it into four strips along the length, so that each strip had the entire gradient. Then, I took each strip and divided that into the four, this time along the colors so that each piece was only part of the gradient. I took those four pieces and pre-drafted them together, resulting in this.<\/p>\n

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When spun up as a single, the color comes out kind of random in the yarn.<\/p>\n

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In time, I spun up both braids, and then plied.<\/p>\n

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I do like the resulting yarn, though if I had to do it again, I would have done the first splitting of the fiber into more pieces (maybe six or eight) for shorter “color bursts”. I am pretty sure that I will be weaving with this yarn, as I have tried knitting with it, and while it looks and feels great, stitch patterns have a hard time fight against such a big mix of shades and tones.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2011 by G. P. Donohue for textillian.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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