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Spinning: Swatch of Preserving Colour
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Swatch of Preserving Colour

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I knitted up a swatch of my first experiment with preserving colour I love the colours even more than I did before, especially where they blend into one another and where they get a bit speckly :o). I think this would make a really sweet little hat.
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Category: Spinning

Type of item: Accessory

For: Other

Style: Whimsical

Materials

Swatch of roving from sample colour pack

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Seagreen101 on craftsy.com
Seagreen101
Nov 07, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Love it! How did you preserve the color?
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excited spinner
Nov 07, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
I split the roving in half lengthwise, spun each half on a separate bobbin, then plied the two back together, trying as much as possible to keep the colours lined up as I did so. Felicia talks about thisin one of the early lessons on preserving colour; she says she prefers navajo plying because there is less risk of the colours getting out of alignment, but I have done it this way a few times, and am getting better at it.

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