Plying Rainbow

Plying is still a process, and I'm still partly in the "let's just throw it together and see what happens" stage.  I intended to make Rainbow a three ply, and wound each braid on it's own spool:

Then, I carefully wound a plying ball:

(Yes, I'm still drafting thread, and I'm working on trying to make the singles bigger.)

I thought, and hoped, that I would have enough of each color run on the spools to keep them together, and that didn't happen.  What has happened is really rather interesting, and why I'm not quite ready to give up the "oh, what the hell" method.  It's all come together rather softly, and I've wound up with soft, impressionistic colors.

The first bit of blues, violets, and greens remind me of Van Gogh's Irises:

While the later bits of yellow, orange, and red remind me more of Monet's Haystack at Giverny:

As I wound the plied yarn off onto the chair back, I can see what happened.  I had a good run of red and of orange, but one of the spools transitioned to yellow before the other two.

I still have another full spool and two leftover bits of green, blue and violet.  With those, I intend to wind a chain ply ball, but that is a different post for a different day.