Jul 11
Working on baby's first chain-plying! I looooove how round the three-ply yarn is but this technique feels like it would be a LOT easier on a wheel
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Working on baby's first chain-plying! I looooove how round the three-ply yarn is but this technique feels like it would be a LOT easier on a wheel
gonna do the world's chillest Tour de Fleece and try to make Some Progress on this rainbow batt every day even if the curse confines me to my bed
Somehow I do not think there is going to be enough room on my plying spindle for the rest of this
first proper attempt to spin woolen style is very uneven but it is also very fluffy. I think this would be much easier on a wheel but I shall persevere.
Various handspuns awaiting wet finishing :) Green and blue are wool blends, grey is baby alpaca, and white is cashmere. All two-ply and spun on my drop spindles.
Yarn!!! It's washed and done and considerably more vibrant than these photos. If I did my math right this should be about 150 yards. I want to weave with it but I haven't figured out the exact details yet!
My spinning group does a silly challenge called Five Card Long Draw where you choose a card from each of five categories: type of fiber, spinning style, color, type of plying, and type of finished project. You can discard one of your cards, but you use the others as guidelines to complete a project!
I couldn't go to the meeting (alas, sore throat appears to be eelness instead of vinaigrette overindulgence) but they drew for me and my cards are:
Linen or hemp
Lace
Natural
Ply with Commercial Yarn (funky stuff)
Flowers
Not entirely sure which one I'll drop but it'll be one of the last two I think. But now I have a great excuse to learn to spin the hemp I got from the guild store a while ago!
Friend sent me SO MUCH FIBER that had been languishing in their family's house forever so now I need to:
Learn to spin mohair
Identify the one small bag of Mystery Fiber (it's super soft but the staple length is basically nothing. gonna try the bleach test to see if it's animal fiber?)
De-grease some fleece that's WAY nicer than the stuff I had in Costa Rica
Since a lot of it is fleece that's been dyed but is still in locks: either prepare to spend a lot of time with my carding combs in New England or make best friends with the Guild electric drum carder before we move