Questionable Blend 9 - Tropical. Making Blending Board Rolags

Описание: 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 Tropical from World of Wool - https://www.worldofwool.co.uk/product...

Most of the yarns in this series will be spun on my Electric Eel Wheel 6 - (Affiliate link) - https://www.dreamingrobots.com/produc...

In this video, I'm demonstrating a technique I discovered while experimenting with various ways of avoiding spinning mud. I break off two sections that are the length of my blending board, open them up and then just lay them on my blending board without drafting them at all. I then roll off 4 rolags.

By doing this I'm effectively spinning the colours within Tropical from the side, allowing me to spin from a reduced number of colours and therefore reducing optical blending.

To read more about how I spun this particular blended top, you can read the full blog post here - https://www.craftmehappy.com/2024/10/...

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Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
0:17 Breaking Tropical up into blending board lengths
0:27 Opening up the Tropical top
1:47 Drafting and rolling off blending board rolags
4:24 Stop motion of a bobbin filling
4:41 Images of final Tropical yarn
5:00 Mitred squares knitted with Tropical yarn