I've been thinking...

I've been spinning on the second bobbin of Frostrosen (more than halfway done now), and since spinning is such a wonderful time for thinking, my mind has been working too. Remember a couple of weeks ago when I mentioned that I wanted to do some stranded knitting/Fair Isle type projects? Rosemarkie was one of the ones I mentioned and it has been bouncing around in my head for days now. It's knit in fingering weight yarns which is also what most sock yarns are, so I took a look in the sock yarn stash (yes, I have a separate stash of just sock yarns, this is normal, don't laugh like that). Sitting near the top of the sock yarn stash was the Merino/Kid Mohair that I recently spun up as a cabled yarn. There is more than enough of this to use for one of the colors of Rosemarkie and because it's a cabled yarn, it's very consistent size wise. Then I remembered something else I had in my stash: 12 ounces of Merino Silk top in a blue color, but since it's an Ashland Bay fiber, it's not just a solid blue. It has different blues and some purples in it too so it will spin up into an overall blue yarn, but not a flat blue color - it will be a more interesting blue than it would be if it were all one shade of blue. I could spin this up (it would probably be best to make a cabled yarn out of it also) and use this as the other color (probably in place of the various background colors) in Rosemarkie. It would be a simpler design using only two colors, but I think the blue yarn, being an interesting blue, would compensate for that and keep things interesting. The fiber content of the two yarns isn't traditional at all, but I think it would work, and the fact that the yarns are cabled and not just a regular two ply should mean the vest will last forever. Can anyone think of a reason this won't work? Obviously, spinning all the blue will be a very long process, but since I have two wheels, I can spin smaller amounts of other things on the second wheel and (hopefully) not be driven insane.