#wtfs spinning

[whatthefibre]

Currently I have 2 boxes of wool waste from combing the white fleece (too short cuts of the wool). To avoid having to throw it away I'm carding it. My goal is to spin it into something like a rustic tweed yarn

[whatthefibre]

One of my goals with spinning was to make some sockyarn. For this I spun some really thin singles, portioned them into 2 and wound them into balls. (While winding i noticed the twist was a bit underwhelming :/ )

To achieve a 4ply sockyarn I spun from the in-and outside of the balls so I had 4 singles

In conclusion I could have spun the singles a tad thicker and with a bit more twist. I'm still not quite satisfied, especially with the width which i prefer to be a bit bigger for sockknitting. Next time will hopefully work out for a pair of socks. Now the only problem is I don't know what to do with a 100gr of this yarn. Any ideas are welcome

[whatthefibre]

Making more warm clouds

[whatthefibre]

130gr of combed sheeps wool. I started scouring my wool more and it really makes a difference- combing and dizzing is much easier now.

[whatthefibre]

I got 3 sheep fleeces for free and they're all really good quality. No felting, minimal VM and the tags were easy to pick out. You can't really see here but the fleeces have some very pretty colour variation.

I washed some of it. Unfortunately the weather wasn't in my favour, so I had to let it dry inside(I used old baking trays to let it drip properly) which took a lot longer.

I haven't started further processing it cause I'm unsure on how to handle this wool. You can see the locks aren't uniform. At the bottom the hair is shorter and soft(grey parts) and (mostly visible at the top) distributed throughout are these longer coarser hairs. I think if I'll comb this the hairs would seperate and I'll have a lot of waste. Any suggestions on how to handle this wool best would be greatly appreciated.

[whatthefibre]

First time making rolags. I used the wool I washed previously. Carding is surprisingly easy, thought it would be more complicated

[whatthefibre]

I tried handspinning on a drop spindle. I avoided it cause it seemed intimidating and like a lot of work, but spinning was really fun. The drop spindle was handbuilt. Unfortunately I dropped it one too many times on the ground and the whorl broke. I substituted it with a little clay and worked almost as good.

[whatthefibre]

It's been raining constantly these last few days, so I've been spending my time inside. I've harvested lavender from our garden and sorted it. My plan is to sew little pouches w/ it inside and use it to repell moths (and have my wool smell nice). The rolags I carded (ca. 25) spin up nice but it's weird to work w/ wool that has such a shirt staple length