After the success of the first Just Batty Challenge, the Jenkins group on Ravelry decided to organize another one! Again, we cooperated with the Nunoco girls, and the rules were the same as well: you provide your top five from the available batts, and then you pick one of the batts from the top five of your downstream partner. Your upstream partner will choose from your top five. Easy rule, hard choice (sometimes).
I picked a batt from my partner that was called “Typical Villain”, and which is fuchsia/purplish. My upstream partner chose a pretty misty green from my top five: “Wild Wood”. The names together gave me a funny association, because my husband and I have recently watched the movie Maleficent, and the combination of my batts’ names seemed to fit seamlessly. So I might creat a yarn that’s called Maleficent!
This time it is allowed to card your batts together if you like, and I might indeed mix them up a bit (not too smoothly) to create/suggest a gradient without losing the original colours entirely. A big challenge, which I still have to tackle. Perhaps the coming weekend? Anyway, we have until the end of January to finish the yarn, so no hurry. I might even spin it all on my Finch and Kuchulu, because there is that much time.
I’m sitting out this round b/c I still need to finish my last batts! I am a slow/distracted spinner…