Again, in the interest of taking good notes about my spinning…

Next on the wheel is some Merino Silk from Bee Mice Elf. I picked this up over the summer, expecting it to be Tour de Fleece spinning, and then I ran out of days in the TdF. I also ran out of spinning mojo, and so the roving just marinated in the stash for a while, while I thought about what it wanted to be. I’ve decided on a 2-ply fingering weight, with little rhyme or reason to the splitting of the roving.

I ended up dividing the roving into halves, and then halves again, and then halves again, ending up with 8 chunks of roving. I took four pieces for each ply, trying to match the colors on the ends so that I’d have plenty of options for matching the ends together as I spin. When I join roving strips, I like to join like colors. It’s a very strong preference, bordering on compulsion (everything MUST match!). So, again, with the need to join like ends together, as I split the roving sections lengthwise into easily spinnable pieces, I made sure there were an even number of strips from each section. Or at least enough matching like ends so that I didn’t have any orphan pieces that couldn’t join anywhere.

The fiber is all ready to go, and I was hoping to start it up soon, but I’m actually not sure when I’ll get to it. I’ve finally been able to tear myself away from Dragon Age and the Xbox long enough to get back into spinning and knitting, and now it’s nearly January 26th: the release date for Mass Effect 2. I’ve been anticipating this one for-effing-ever, and I don’t think it’s going to disappoint. So, poor roving is probably going to have to wait for me for a few weeks.

The reason I consider this spinning something different is because I don’t anticipate knitting socks with this yarn, given its fancy merino silk nature. And I always spin things anticipating socks. OMG.