Questionable Blend 1 - Higglety Pigglety - Rolags on a Blending Board

This video accompanies my blog post on the various ways of spinning ‘Questionable Blends’. I’m using the word ‘questionable’ to describe any vertically blended top that contains colours from more than half of the colour wheel. The kinds of blends that would cast doubt in the minds of even the most experienced of spinners and have them questioning how it might turn out.
Most of the blends that I’ve chosen for this series are highly likely to turn ever so slightly grey or brown if no attention is paid to colour management, and the colours are allowed to optically blend together.
This particular fibre is Higglety Pigglety from World of Wool - www.worldofwool.co.uk/product...
All of the yarns in this series will be spun on my Electric Eel Wheel 6 - (Affiliate link) - www.dreamingrobots.com/produc...
In this video, I'm opening up the blended top and trying to get all of the colours to sit next to each other rather than on top of each other. I then lay them on my blending board and brush them down in a single layer. I then roll off 3 relatively thin blending board rolags to be spun from the end.
Unfortunately, the resulting yarn is still quite muddy as the original fibre was quite well blended to begin with.
To read more about how I spun this particular blended top, you can read the full blog post here - www.craftmehappy.com/2024/02/...
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Timestamps -
0:00 Introduction
0:06 Breaking the top into blending board lengths
0:22 Opening up the vertically blended top to half the width of the blending board
1:14 brushing the wool top down onto the blending board
1:45 Rolling rolags off the blending board
3:30 Stop motion of a spinning wheel bobbin filling
3:39 Showing the final yarn and knitted mitred squares

[@victoriasandrews9996]

You make this look so doable.

[@KathrynCraftmehappy]

Oh it’s totally doable. If you can use a blending board you can do this!

[@lydiamashcka4362]

That s a beautiful color it reminds me of aged copper or bronze.

[@KathrynCraftmehappy]

Ooh yes, I can see that. That’s a much better name for it!