Remember this roving?

I dyed this in the crockpot back in May. It's been slow going on spinning this up, but I finally finished it this weekend.

In progress - above is one bobbin and some of the little pre-drafted bundles of fiber that are ready for spinning.

The top skein is a two-ply version of the yarn from this roving. I was worried about plying it too tightly and as a result I ended up with a very loosely plied skein. I wasn't thrilled with it, so I decided to spin a three-ply yarn for the second skein.

Since one of my bobbins had more single-ply on it than the other, I wound that one off into a center-pull ball. I then plied the second skein using both ends of the ball and the single-ply from the second bobbin. It worked out quite nicely and I like the resulting yarn much better than the yarn in the first skein.

Here's a close-up of the three-ply. I like the shape of the yarn and I also like how the different colors get more mixed up in the yarn.

There was one other problem that I noticed while plying this yarn. I couldn't help but notice that long segments of this yarn remind me of these dog treats!

My next step is to knit up some swatches to get an idea of how the yarn looks "in production".