February challenge: card and spin a gradient.

I started with 210 g of fiber, half of which was purple South American merino, the other half was undyed fine Australian merino. The first batch was 30g of white, then 25 g white and 5 g purple, 20 g white and 10 g purple … and so on until I ended with 30 g of purple.

Interesting observation: the white was a finer merino, than the purple (21 micron versus 27 micron) and the finer one I could spin much thinner.

As the mixtures progress to dark the yardage decreases significantly.

The biggest visual jump goes from white to the first mixed yarn, while there is nearly no difference between 3rd and 4th mix (20 g white and 10 g purple versus 15 g of each).

It was great fun to create the batts and watching, how the color changed slowly, I’ll probably use that again some time.

Great challenge!