After I spun the Merino, I picked up another colorway from Spunky Eclectic -- this time a sliver of Coopworth in the colorway Nightshade.   While the fiber itself was perhaps a bit coarse and scratchy, I love the colorway and am sad she isn't still producing it.

For this I went back to my 'default' spinning -- short-forward draw/inch-worm style, a relatively fine 2-ply.     Since there wasn't a discernible 'pattern' to the colors (it looked kettle-dyed rather than space-dyed), instead of splitting the entire roving lengthwise, I opted to fold it in half, and literally split across the middle of the length.   My hope was that I would get reasonably close to the same lengths on the two bobbins (though that didn't occur) but I wasn't trying for a consistent color.  I packed both bobbins pretty full.

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After I finished the previous batts I was still in the mood for fast spinning, so last weekend I spun up some Merino roving I had from Spunky Eclectic, in the colorway Mudslide.  Merino is a very soft fiber that really is best served by being spun thick and lofty anyway.  Again, being from a fiber club, this happened to be a colorway I wasn't especially keen on.

 

Now, her fiber is carded and in roving form; this particular one was space-dyed, and had a distinct pattern.    I unrolled the braid, and then stripped it - here is one of the strips (I forgot to take a photo prior to stripping and unfortunately this is the only one I took of the strips):

 

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I've started spinning more, trying to spin a couple of days a week. I still need to photograph and post some of what I've done over the past few months, but I did photograph what I did this week.

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