So these four…

…became this:

This will be the base for my next creation. It will be combined with these four:

The story so far:

Say hello to the newest member of the family. Huh, you can’t see but there’s some vivid bright green in this that apparently didn’t photograph well.

Well, I like it, though it may be mellow.

The colors that will be going into my next yarn.  I am liking that melon in the upper right and I think I’ll do it as a solid after this.

I’m breaking Deb Menz’ rules a little bit, in that the two colors on the bottom were two of the ingredients in the blend, and now I’m going to use them on their own as well.  She always wanted to us to pick different colors,  never the same one twice.  Again, she provided a lot more to choose from than I have.

This will be the base of my next variegated.  The top batt is what these four colors look like all blend together.

It’s nice, but it’s kind of what I always end up making.  Those secondary colors.  Green, with purple and orange.  And when I want to mix up a little – orange, with green & purple!  And when I’m feeling wild – purple, with green & orange!!

Next time WILL be different!

And here are the batts being semi-blended.  Thanx @sarajane0714 for the compliments on the green.  It may be getting a little bit lost among the dominant amethyst & garnet.  Of course it’s not coming out anything like I first pictured.  And of course, I only had the 18 colors I made this year to choose from.  That’s a severely limited palette.  In one of Deb Menz’ color in spinning workshops, which are the inspiration for all that I do in this domain, she brought in 84 (!) different colors of Merino roving.  We all marveled at the choices before us.  And she said, “It won’t be enough.”  We looked at her like we must have misheard.  “It won’t be enough,” she repeated.  “You’ll see.”  Doggone it, she was right, it wasn’t enough.  We all had to blend further to get exactly what we wanted.  I’ve always had this little fantasy of someday having in my little “studio” 84 different colors of roving.  The things I could do!  After first blending some of them all into what I REALLY wanted, of course.

 

Look how the bottom four colors (see yesterday) blended together to make this awesome green.  Now I’m rethinking that red a little bit.

Going with these colors for my next multi-colored yarn.

But who’s counting?  11 for the season but I guess I should start over and count it as 5 – 5 for the virtual fair this year, however the hell that’s gonna go.