Celestial

 

Since the spinning fiber vote was tied I chose to just start with Fiber 1, Celestial from Bluefoot Market (which is either currently out of products or taking a break).  The braid weighed 132 grams and is made of 50% Superfine Merino, 25% Rose Fiber, 17% 25 Micron Merino, and 8% Stellina.  This is my first time spinning Rose Fiber, but it feels about the same as spinning a Tencel blend.

The sparkles are really hard to photograph, but in real life this fiber is amazing!

To begin, I unbraided the fiber so I could take a look at the color distribution.  Approximately one third of the length of the top is dyed in the royal blue, purple and orchid pink colors with no blue green at all.  The remaining two thirds are primarily blue green with bits of these colors leaning into white.  Since I want a good mix of color distribution in the finished yarn and I'm spinning a three ply, this made it easy to decide how to handle the braid.

I split the braid into thirds by weight with the first section being the blue and purples with the pinks, the second section is the blue greens with bits of the colors in the first section, and the last section is blue greens with whites. (Counterclockwise starting at the bottom of the above picture.)

Then I split each section lengthwise into fourths to make the sections of each color shorter and started spinning.  I'm spinning this on my Schacht Flatiron using Scotch Tension at the 15.1:1 ratio.  The Rose Fiber makes it a bit slippery, but as long as my take up tension is kept light this blend is wonderful to spin.  It's practically spinning itself!  I actually finished the first bobbin yesterday and will start the second bobbin later today.