In a recent post I began my Speed Tweed experiments, combining an earthy mossy sage toned dyed braid along with undyed wool rovings, attempting to simplify the steps in creating a varied tweedy yarn (which is spun by the way, more on that project is forthcoming). I’m loving the drum carder and speed tweed so much I am racing on to Speed Tweed #2, blending hand pulled tufts off the end of three roving in equal amounts, placed into the carder, and I really love this color combination so much! Its gotten to the point where I just walk down to the tiny (wool) house, make coffee, and get to blending on the new drum carder, for no other reason than I’m in a wool carding mood. I’ll show off these blended batts in another separate photo wool nests and the spun yarn in another post.

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Techy stuff for Speed Tweed #2:

• Fibers . . .
  • 1 part hand-dyed colored roving (100g braid from Jakira Farms)
  • 1 part solid roving (100g Paradise Fibers solid merino roving “antique”)
  • 1 part solid roving (100g Ashland Bay solid merino roving “flamingo”)
• I pulled tufts from the ends of the three rovings in sequence as shown above, and placed into the drum carder to run through only once. Repeated until fiber used up, and lift off batt.  
• Three batts of approx. 100g each, of wool to spin. 
• See ALL color blending experiments & recipes archived in Tweed Chronicles