Flowers, fibre and yarn

I have spent most of the day tweaking the forum and loading photos on and off photobucket which is a very slow process when there are a lot of them.
Yesterday we had the most enormous thunderstorm, real thunder and lightning for ages, and the water butt is now almost full. My in-laws came for tea, and brought me this.













The colours are amazing, I must look out for some roving like this... or maybe I could dye my own?













This is the latest off the wheel. The pencil roving is lovely, you can knit with it and felt it, unspun, but I wanted yarn, so it got spun.













And this is the result, not as bright as the prespun roving, and I'm concerned it will turn into mud when it's knitted, so I'm considering plying what's on the bobbin with some of the green or blue sock yarn I got on freecycle.