Having seen some beautiful yarns, such as this Glowing Ginger by Bowerbird Knits, I decided to try fractal spinning for myself. I used Corriedale fibre from My Heart Exposed in a colourway named Clarese, a beautiful mix of greens, rust browns and peach tones.
I split the fibre into two strips, lengthwise. One length was left as it was, the other split lengthwise into two again, giving a shorter fatter piece of fibre and two thinner strips. The idea behind fractal spinning is that the singles will have colour repeats at different rates which will give an interesting effect when plied.
The fibre started out looking like this:
and when plied became yarn like this:
I am pleased with the end result, but possibly the colours (lovely as they are) were a little too similar in tone for the fractal patterning to show as distinctly as it could have done. I’m looking forward to making something from this to see how the colours appear when knitted – I’m imagining that it should have lots of subtle changes.
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