Tour De Fleece Day 9

Well, poor old Andy Murray, he must be suffering a bit of Tennis elbow!  I am suffering 'Spinners Kneecap'!  Nah, not really, I am not suffering at all but today I spun my little heart out.  Rumpelstiltskin himself would be proud of me!  I was at my parents spinning away while the Tennis was on.  I just don't get tennis, I was amazed Henry seems to understand it!  Apparently he still owes the school £4.00 for three tennis balls that got stuck on the school roof!
            The Bluefaced Leicester fibre seemed to go on for miles and miles.  It is a lovely fleece to spin with though and I would definitely like to spin more of it.

I do think Bluefaced Leicester's are particularly handsome sheep.  They are rather strong and noble looking sheep, don't you think?  They are lovely and the fleece is lovely too.  I really should have been a farmers wife. . . or maybe just a farmer.
           I chose to Navajo ply / chain ply this yarn as I wanted to keep the blocks of colour for when I crochet 'Jupiter'.  If I plied two bobbins together of variegated yarns the colours would be blended, marled or resemble a Barbers Pole!  I am not keen on the Barbers Pole effect.  Plying a single thread enables you to keep some blocks of solid colour.   Navajo plying is plying from a single thread, you make a large/ long slip knot and ply it together with the thread, catching and making chain stitches/slip knots as you go.  It is hard to explain but there are videos on Youtube.  That is how I learned to Navajo ply. . .yeah for Youtube!  The resulting yarn is three ply, as in three strands twisted together.   If I want a finer yarn I spin two bobbins and ply the two threads together.   I spin clockwise and ply anti - clockwise.  The correct terms are 'S' twist and 'Z' twist but my little brain gets into a muddle and I get all muxed up as to which one is which way...I generally spin 'towards the door' and 'away from the door', I can cope with that because that is the kind of girl I am.  I still cannot say 'Ah right I will spin a nice fine yarn'.  I just get what I get, with all it's irregularities and uniqueness.  I am yet to be anything other than delighted with whatever I spin.  I don't know what I am going to spin tomorrow but I will have to hurry up and think about it.  Oh yes probably 'Mars'.  I am still troubled by one thing and it makes me snigger like a naughty school kid (which I was).  What colour is Uranus?