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Working on more spinning. This batt has more short stapled fibers and is not spinning up quite as well, but still enjoyable.

Here's the current fingertip splint situation lol. So a bandaid is better than nothing for sure, but its not enough to stop the joint from bending backwards. .. so... paperclip. Its very effective in keeping the joint in place but also hurts a surprising amount. So more thought needed, but definitely better fitting than the plastic finger splints are.

#thinking of reshaping the paperclip to something that doesnt rest like right above my fingernail #spinning #handspun yarn #southdown babydoll #wool batt #supported spindle #ehlers danlos

Failed my one goal for the fiber festival: don’t buy anything. Got some Navajo Churro roving, 90% Alpaca/10%merino blended batt, and two more bags of Romney roving.

I got this exact Romney a year ago, but the booth sold it at a 50% discount and it felt too good to be true, so I only got a little in case it was moth infested or something. But no, completely fine wool, and I kicked myself for not cleaning her out. She had the same discounts so I got twice as much today.

Also, I brought my whidbey bag (got a lot of compliments on it hehe) to carry everything and got to tell the Shaggy Bear Farms owner that I’d made it from Zinnias wool. That was a very satisfying conversation.

#wool #wool roving #wool batt #Navajo churro #Romney #alpaca #fiber festival #for the last two months I’ve been counting down the days to the festival and then I went and forgot about it until this morning

Started here (having blended 10 oz/280 g of various fibers, with help from chuck)

Currently here ! Halfway done, or thereabouts. 4 batts left to spin, and then ill have 2 plies done.

I started carding some shetland moorit fleece to see if that would be an acceptable 3rd ply. Still undecided; if i want to spin enough of this to equal the yardage of that huge bobbin I probably need to spin it on the espinner...but it has a lot of vm even when I spent ages picking it out while carding, and stopping/starting kinda sucks when your pedal is faulty, which mine seems to be. So, maybe.

Still looking for the dark brown merino combing waste that I think would be a perfect 3rd ply. Idk where else to check, but i guess ive got around a week to find it bc I still have to spin the rest of those batts.

#spinning #espinner #eew 6.0 #the pedal works about 10% of the time if that #and sometimes stops but then immediately starts again multiple times in a row #SO ANNOYING. its done this the whole time but my patience has fully run out now #need to figure out a replacement ig #wool batt #also my plans have changed a bit...i now wanna see if i can make a sweater with it #idk idk it depends on how much yardage i end up with and the finished yarn weight #but im incentivized to make as much yarn as i can #especially because i prefer sweaters to be several sizes bigger than i am so were looking at a 2xl mens...#which may not be possible with the fiber ive got ! if nothing else its possible i could do ribbing/cuffs in shetland #tbh i could do stripes in shetland. if i get a better pedal that is -_-#cat #chuck

I want to be done with this project so that I can start the next one, but ive got at least another 5 hours probably (finish this bobbin plus plying plus spinning whatever was leftover and didnt fit on the first 3 bobbins)... I keep catching myself imagining spinning the southdown batts xD

One day I will be free of this long, somewhat tedious project and then I can work on my brand new shiny long and somewhat tedious project. One day...

#that said whenever i hit a stretch of of the shetland moorit fleece in these rolags its sooooo nice #its such a beautiful fleece...unfortunately it has so much fucking vm. but when i figure out a doable way to process it #i will be so happy #and then i will be so bored spinning 2 pounds of brown fleece #lol. so it goes #ive realized i dont like long spinning projects very much but then i struggle to use single skeins #so either i have more fun spinning but rarely use my handspun or i have a bit of a slog spinning but actually do use the handspun #spinning #wool batt

More cotton punis. I think I'm slowly understanding how it wants to be worked--quite differently from wool on hand cards--and the punis are getting both physically easier to make thanks to better economy of movement and also somewhat nicer, altho I'm still having a hard time judging when the cotton has actually been carded enough. I'm not sure why, it's typically pretty clear with wool. Anyway, I'm working on it.

Also spun up one of the batts I made earlier. To be plied later on my treadle wheel.

The 2 pounds of ginned cotton is supposed to arrive early (today !). Definitely want to see what it's like.

I think the punis are destined to be spun a lot thicker as a test, also on my wheel. Maybe on stream and maybe tonight but not sure.

#spinning #handspun yarn #cotton #wool batt #cotton puni

2 big rolags pulled off the blending board (less fussy than pulling strips off a batt imo but also can be harder to spin...this batch definitely was harder). Both a blend of tussah silk, various scraps of wool (aiming for the soft stuff), and alpaca.

I used them to practice spinning on the espinner while laying down. Theres very few positions I can make it work in, but the bigger problem is actually that chuck does not realize she shouldn't stick her head/tail/paws in it while its on :( so I kept having to move it around as she moved around, which was not really what I was going for.

Anyway, did manage to spin both. I think i will 2 ply them. Theres a pretty big difference in both thickness and even-ness between the two, but ah well.

Here they are all spun up. I'll ply them later and just let them rest for now. Ive found that while I never needed to rest singles with my spindles or wheel, if i dont with my espinner there's just all kinds of tangles. I think it might be a difference with ability to tension the singles ? Idk.

Ive been thinking they'd make good fingerless gloves, but i kind of dont use those, I prefer both to make and to wear gloves and sometimes mittens. And i dont think i have enough for either of those. So it might just go in the handspun yarn horde.

Bonus chuck:

#spinning #handspun yarn #wool batt #rolag #wool prep #rolags #espinner #cat

Doing some spinning on the espinner. Im still processing the jacob; I wrenched my shoulder picking up the world's biggest watermelon like an idiot, so I needed to take a break...made this batt out of some roving scraps (of which i have MANY, I will be making lots of batts hopefully). Not sure how I'll ply it...

I also have some onion skin dyed cotswold roving drying right now which im gonna spin into hopefully some sock yarn. Still drying tho.

Bonus chuck with aforementioned watermelon. And she is a big lad. Watermelon is significantly larger than her.

#when i got on the bus with it the bus driver just stared at me and said 'thats a big watermelon' with an air of concern #spinning #handspun yarn #espinner #chuck #wool batt

Blended some fiber last night

The brown and black rolag is 1/3 of an ounce (9 grams) and made of silk and merino and a little mystery wool; the blue-purple gradient weighs 1/5 of an ounce (8 grams) and is mostly bfl and Romney.

Then there's this batt, which is 1.2 ounces (34 grams) and a blend of merino, silk, tencel, milkweed silk, and angora. That one is a yellowish to green to blueish gradient. Been wanting to try more gradients. Also, was a good way to use up the .8 ounces of merino-silk roving I got with my last 4 bucks at flock and fiber this year. I didn't really like spinning it by itself (just boring) but hopefully it'll be better here.

#wool batt #rolags #blending board #brain is much more interested in facilitating turning into a pile of noxious goo #rather than like. making things or doing stuff or being alive or anything like that #i did try to enjoy myself with the fiber arts #but it is what it is

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