Gleams in the Darkness

Some spinning for a change. This is what I had on the wheel when the Greenwood Fiberworks club package came in the mail. Needless to say, there was a big flurry of activity to get it off to make way for the Downton Abbey spin-along.

 
 I was reading The Hobbit while I started spinning this, and ran into this passage in the book that perfectly described the yarn I was getting:

 They slept all closely huddled together, and took it in turns to watch; and when it was Bilbo’s turn he would see gleams in the darkness round them, and sometimes pairs of yellow or red or green eyes would stare at him from a little distance, and then slowly fade and disappear and slowly shine out again in another place. And sometimes they would gleam down from the branches just above him; and that was most terrifying.

 
 I had 100 g of dark brown wool top and 50 g each of green and purple. I tore the tops into small strips about the length of an arm, divided them into three piles of about equal weight, and spun them in the order brown-purple-brown-green-brown etc. Spun the singles onto three bobbins to make 3-ply yarn.

 
 This was my first time three-plying and it took a while to get my feet and hands in order. Considering the amount of frustration, the skeins turned out pretty good. In total, I got 528 m/200 g or 577 yd/7 oz of about sport-weight yarn (16 WPI).

On Ravelry: Gleams in the Darkness

Skein 1

Skein 2

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