For today’s productive adventure, after cleaning the kitchen counters and making a giant fire-truck shaped cookie for The Reluctant Farmer’s birthday lunch (it ended up more like cake, but nobody really complained), I sat down to spin up some alpaca.
I combed this on my Louet Mini Combs, then spun it from the poofs that resulted (I didn’t diz the fibre out into rovings). The fleece is incredibly soft and fine – this is a prize-winning alpaca fleece that I was asked to spin, it’s really very lovely. The gray is subtly variegated from white to silver to dark gray with a few flecks of brown and the resulting yarn is beautifully textured. I spun this for loft and softness, rather than fine and shiny, though the fleece could do either. I need to ply this and see how the finished yarn looks, but it certainly feels soft on the bobbin!
looks great! One of the things your dad recognized at the Home Hardware museum was a wool winder; well that's what he says it is - very old & of course he said how much you would like it - NONE of the items were for sale!
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That's working up so nicely! Looks like you have found just the right touch for that lovely fleece.
ReplyDeleteIt's got quite a lot of halo to it ... we'll see how it looks plied. I think it's going to end up much like the Peter Rabbit angora I worked with. Only it probably won't get up my nose as badly.
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