From Fluff to Finished in one post

For once I've actually managed to be patient enough to NOT post about a project until it was done so I could do a single post to show the transition from Fluff to Stuff. 

So, here is the fluff.  The colourway is called Oudh and its a Nunoco batt.   I haven't a lot of experience with fibre but Nunoco is one of the best fibre suppliers I've used so far, their batts draft amazingly, and the colours are so much better in real life than you can capture in a photo.  This one was no exception and I enjoyed every minute of spinning and knitting it.    This batt was a gift from the lovely RuthieSews this Christmas.        

Although its not obvious from the photo (and I forgot to take a photo of the batt unrolled as I was in too much of a hurry to spin it) the batt is a gradient from dark purple to airforce blue and has a brown layer also that has brown firestar in it to give it sparkle. The hot pink is silk noil. 








I chose to keep the gradient, and started from the light side, tearing off strips lengthwise and spinning these up in order.  You can see that in the bobbin shot and then on the two bobbins on the Lazy Kate waiting to be plied. 

And here are the skeins after the singles were plied and the skeins washed.  Look how much fluffier they came out compared to the singles.  I stuck a pencil in the skein for scale since it was the nearest thing I could lay hands on.

 

 

And here is the yarn wound into a centre pull ball which shows the gradient quite nicely. Its a two ply yarn and I spun both from light to dark, not particularly scientifically, just tearing off strips as I got to them and hoping they were more or less similar across both batts.  Seems to have worked out fine. 

And finally, the completed article.  The pattern is Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's One Row Handspun scarf.  Its very easy to knit, and in this thick yarn, very quick too.  It took me two days to knit this 100gramme scarf.  The stitch pattern is reversible and the gradient came out rather nicely I thought.  Due to the yardage constraints its not the longest scarf in the world, but its long enough to work and that's what matters.  It is also very warm, very soft and feels wonderful.   It looks exactly how I envisaged it and I can't wait to wear it.  This photo was taken pre-blocking as I was impatient to show it off.  Its currently sat on the floor in the sewing room, rather damp, pinned out on blocking wires, along with another project, which is destined for the Box of Possible Gifts - Christmas version and is therefore not going to make an appearance on the blog for quite some time.  And only then if I actually remember to photograph it before I wrap it up (which most years I don't manage to do). 

I've also completed another knitting project recently, but that is also a gift and I just realised I haven't photographed that one either.