ElderBerry Spin

In January,  I went up to Fort Collins to order a lace whorl for my wheel. Once, in Fort Collins, it is hard to resist checking some of the other stores.   This is 4 ounces of fiber in the elder berry color combination. And it followed me home. 

I decided to spin each color separately and plan to ply them together.  The first one up was the red purple one.

And next up was the grey one.

I am now wondering if the the weights between the three rovings are even.   Next up is the blue.

All of the singles are being spun with the 16 ratio whorl.

Mojave Sunset

And here is the completed product, three skeins of three ply and a dab of two ply.   The three skeins add up to 522 yards.  The dab is 27 yards and has some energy in it still.

I am think dk for the thickness of the three ply, maybe light worsted.  The yarn is soft without much halo.  The color variation might be enough to keep it from being good for a pattern with a lot of texture.  I will have to think about.  I did end up with more than I expected too.  Probably explains why it took longer than expect to spin.