Hi! I'm Tara and I'm the Blonde Chicken behind all this yarn! You can read more about how I got this 
I bought the cards without knowing how to use them, but I was pretty confident I could find an internet resource or two. Indeed.
This article from Knitty is great for color combining
This video from the motherload of spinning resources, The Joy of Handspinning, is perfect.
The above yarn (Fire in the Sky) is spun from the first batt I blended. Mostly gray local wool, handdyed orange and then blended with a bit of gray and blue wool (the blue that you see wasn’t blended in, but spun in).
I spent most of the last two weeks playing around with color combos and trying to perfect the bit that comes after carding: turning it into a spinnable form. When it comes off the cards, it’s really just a filmy cloud of fiber…too ephemeral to easily spin from. Using the Knitty article as a jumping off point, I devised a way to make it into roving:
The above pink roving* is the first unspun fiber I’m going to offer in my shop and I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I’m not sure why…but carding is still new to me and I guess I’m worried someone’s going to scold me! I can NOT come up with a name for it…any suggestions?
The winner will get 5% off their next BCB purchase and the winning name will be chosen by my whim. (nothing with the word “rose” in it will be considered, because I’ve already come up with and rejected it)
The difference? Top is combed fiber, all of the fibers parallel with less air between them. Roving is carded, full of air and not as smooth as top.
For very clear definitions of all fiber preps, see the Spin-off article, availble for free download here (PDF).
And for definitions of all fiber-y things, this is a great resource from the Spindle and Wheel.
