Making roving by zigzagging it from a blending board batt to spin a yarn with long colour sections

This video should hopefully accompany a blog post I'm thinking of writing on how to spin a Tartan yarn. My goal is to spin a yarn with long colour sections, and a complementary yarn with shorter colour sections. The idea is that I will eventually be able to weave a tartan effect scarf using my two variegated yarns without having to change colour during weaving. That's the idea anyway!

If it works, I'll blog about it at - www.craftmehappy.com

I’ve read about spinners making roving out of a drum-carded batt by ‘zigzagging’ and then drafting it into one continuous length.

I want to spin a yarn with long colour sections to use as the warp in a woven scarf. I thought I’d remove a batt from my ‪@AshfordNz‬ blending board and try to zig-zag roving from it. This was my third attempt at zigzagging roving and it was pretty easy - much more straightforward than learning how to use a diz…

The final singles were chain-plied at the wheel to keep the colours together. You can find a close up video of how I chain ply at the wheel here -    • Close up of Chain-Plying (Navajo Plyi...  

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All of the fibres I used were either merino or silk from ‪@worldofwoolteam‬ - https://www.worldofwool.co.uk
I worked a layer of coloured merino, a layer of silk, followed by a thin layer of white superfine merino. I repeated this twice more but omitted the last layer of white merino.

Fibres used (all from World of Wool)-

‘Mediterranean’ merino
‘Buenos Aires Blue’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Raspberry’ merino
‘Jaipur Pink’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Magenta’ merino
‘Clementine’ Merino
‘Singapore Yellow’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Lightning’ Superfine merino

Timestamps -

00:00 Introduction
00:07 Adding merino and silk to the blending board by drafting it with a blending board brush
7:46 Lifting the batt off the blending board
8:18 starting to zigzag the batt
8:51 Drafting the zigzagged batt into roving
11:05 Winding the roving into a ball
11:37 Spinning fine singles on the Electric Eel Wheel Nano 2.0
12:13 Time lapse of adding a layer to a Nano bobbin
12:49 Finished yarn from the Electric Eel Wheel Nano 2.0

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