A Little Catching Up
I think Gerald's from Saskatchewan...
Let me begin by saying our internet has been so poor for the last 3 days I couldn't get either my GoDaddy or Google blog interfaces to load. Pffft! So no new posts until today!
Yes sir! Yes sir! 3 bags full arrived from A & B Custom Mill! The two white ones are Corriedale cross yearling fleeces made into pin drafting for me to spin by hand! It's really nice! Quite soft, after all, it's first shearing!
The grey is nice but not quite as fine as it's from a 2 year old and quite frankly I had forgotten it was even there! So let's just say it was a bonus surprise when I opened the box! (granted a "bonus" I'd paid for! D'oh!)
These fleeces came from Wooly Wool of the West and Val was wonderful enough to deliver them to A & B for me since she was traveling to an Alberta town nearby! She also delivered several more fleeces I purchased from her but they are being custom spun by A & B and aren't ready yet. I will be very excited to see the skeins in a few weeks!
I'm actually insufferably pleased with myself about purchasing these nice (read: non-Merino) fleeces and having them processed so close to home! It's not "quite" within the touted 50 mile range which is all the green rage but hey, this is the prairies where distance is measured in time, not kilometers! More than close enough to be utterly in vogue! Oooh! My arm is sore from patting myself on the back! LOL!
Of course I wasn't going to make a stand-alone silk fiber yarn. That would pretty much guarantee a saggy knit or crochet project so I dug out this lot of superwash wool that can't make up it's mind what color it wants to be. I figured it would be a pretty good match to the jumbled color sari silk.
I made a simple 2-ply yarn which is quite soft but also dense. It's not your typical fluffy bouncy yarn! All together these 2 lots produced 3 skeins of sari silk blend yarn and 2 skeins of superwash-only yarn!
Yes sir! Yes sir! 3 bags full arrived from A & B Custom Mill! The two white ones are Corriedale cross yearling fleeces made into pin drafting for me to spin by hand! It's really nice! Quite soft, after all, it's first shearing!
The grey is nice but not quite as fine as it's from a 2 year old and quite frankly I had forgotten it was even there! So let's just say it was a bonus surprise when I opened the box! (granted a "bonus" I'd paid for! D'oh!)
These fleeces came from Wooly Wool of the West and Val was wonderful enough to deliver them to A & B for me since she was traveling to an Alberta town nearby! She also delivered several more fleeces I purchased from her but they are being custom spun by A & B and aren't ready yet. I will be very excited to see the skeins in a few weeks!
I'm actually insufferably pleased with myself about purchasing these nice (read: non-Merino) fleeces and having them processed so close to home! It's not "quite" within the touted 50 mile range which is all the green rage but hey, this is the prairies where distance is measured in time, not kilometers! More than close enough to be utterly in vogue! Oooh! My arm is sore from patting myself on the back! LOL!
Earlier this summer I succumbed to morbid curiosity
and purchased a bundle of recycled sari silk fiber. This
photo is a bit brighter than the actual fiber which is really mostly
dark purple-ish.
It is the strangest stuff to work with! Very self-clingy and heavy which made it possible to spin it finer than I expected. It still made singles that were pretty lumpy and bumpy but at least there were lots of jewel-tone flecks in it to lift the darkish color.
It is the strangest stuff to work with! Very self-clingy and heavy which made it possible to spin it finer than I expected. It still made singles that were pretty lumpy and bumpy but at least there were lots of jewel-tone flecks in it to lift the darkish color.
I made a simple 2-ply yarn which is quite soft but also dense. It's not your typical fluffy bouncy yarn! All together these 2 lots produced 3 skeins of sari silk blend yarn and 2 skeins of superwash-only yarn!
2 Skeins are a solid Worsted weight, 1) 335 yds, 4.9 oz and 2) 222 yds, 3.6 oz and the third was flirting with being an Aran weight, 308 yds, 5.9 oz. All 2-ply: 1 ply sari silk, 1 ply superwash wool.
The remainders of the superwash I chain plied. It produced 2 very different skeins! ! skein is a comfortable Sport weight 3-ply, 265 yds and 2.9 oz. The second is an Aran weight 3-ply, 192 yds and 3.6 oz. Amazing what your singles can turn into when everything is spun over a period of time as opposed to all at once!
And yes, I put it all in my Etsy Shop...
And yes, I put it all in my Etsy Shop...
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Posted by Gloria Patre at 11/9/2011 7:28 PM 
Categories: Spinning, Fiber
Tags: spinning fiber handspun yarn
Categories: Spinning, Fiber
Tags: spinning fiber handspun yarn
I like it! I think the blue and red are just the right combo.
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