Fortuitous!

I pulled the baggie of "good for beginners" wool out of my stash today - the first fiber I ever bought, even before I had my spindle - and I discovered that what I had was not six ounces of "domestic wool", but eight ounces of New Zealand Romney. 46s, which is even the fine end of Romney. Score! (I'm not sure that at the time I would have known what "Romney" meant...and the most prominent statement on the label is "46s wool", and I didn't know what that meant either. :) ) This might change my plans on what to do with it, though. Romney is not really crimpy, so it likes to be spun thick, which would rule sock yarn out - on the other hand that's enough for two pairs of socks. Teh Google is not telling me what Romney likes to be used for, so it's time to go seeking for advice.

I haven't opened the baggie yet, but it looks like a fairly nice top with minimal VM in it. I'm still planning to dye it with PAAS dyes; I guess I'd better figure out what I want to make out of it before I dye it, though, because that'll make the difference between "pick the blue tablet out of every box I've got" and "pick six at random, they all go together (which is one of the awesome things about egg dye kits), and go wild".

I think I got it?

It occurred to me that it would be really, really easy to make something not-entirely-unlike Noro Kureyon; I've even got a skein of it in my stash that I could use as a reference. Thinking of dividing my fiber into eighths, dyeing seven random colors (which I think I could do in quart Mason jars in the oven? put them in at the lowest setting in a water bath?) (and yes, I think the random would work; as noted, one of the lovely things about PAAS dyes is that they all kind of coordinate) and leaving the eighth white. From there, figure out a color sequence, aiming for two repeats over the length of the yarn.

Goal Project: Mitered Squares Scarf. It calls for 300 yards of worsted weight yarn, and I think I can spin that from eight ounces of fiber...and a scarf will be forgiving of both gauge and yardage, yo.