Questionable Blend 5 - Loriini from World of Wool. Making Pencil Roving 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 Loriini from World of Wool and it's 100% bamboo. Of all of the blends in this series, this was my favourite. The colour is beautiful and combined with the shine and drape of bamboo, it spun up into a beautiful yarn - 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’ve broken off 3 lengths of Loriini that are the length of my blending board. I then open up the fibres as much as possible and then lay them on my blending board. I brush them down with my blending board brush and then roll off two thick rolags.
Bamboo is quite a fragile fibre to spin and it seems to want to fall apart at any opportunity. By drafting roving from the end of blending board rolags it gives me pencil roving that has a little bit of twist added - helping it to hold together a little better before I spin it.
The blending board also allows me to spin the colours from the side, resulting in a lot more colour changes as I’m spinning from a reduced number of colours rather than all of the colours together.
To read more about how I spun this particular blended top, you can read the full blog post here - www.craftmehappy.com/2024/06/...
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[@user-ww5ru8pm9z]

Great colors

[@KathrynCraftmehappy]

Aren’t they beautiful?! I was so pleased with how this yarn turned out 🥰

[@dominiquemichaud7945]

Cool! And I feel like your videography skills are better. :)

[@KathrynCraftmehappy]

Thank you, I really appreciate that!