Corespinning is using a thread as your guide and spinning the fibers around it. I’ve seen a lot of neat-looking single-ply yarns lately (in an earlier post, I even announced my determination to try it) and this project was my chance to go for it.
For Eboshi, I wanted a lot of solid colors, where the streaks I’d carded in wouldn’t be lost in the folds of other plies. She’s a strong character, and I thought a bolder, less nuanced color look would suit her perfectly.
As I was carding together the colors, I ended up throwing in more dashes of the bright accent hues than I had planned.
Call it instinct, but now I’m looking at the actual screencap images of her, I’m kind of amazed how much they match. I knew they were close, but… Also, I was really happy with how the bright colors managed to punch UP the dark foundation of the yarn, rather than suppress it. I think the singles structure allows that to really shine.
It’s been a while since I was so whole-heartedly happy with a color-pattern. Working with hand-dyed roving you lose a little control (though you also introduce more nuance of color) and so these hand-picked colors from my stash of single-color roving working out so well is a bit of a reminder of what I can do left to my own devices.
Though the white thread showing through from where my technique fell off on corespinning means I’m going to challenge myself again, soon…
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