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[unicornduke]

I've been busy busy on the spinning wheel. I got 8oz of alpaca roving spun over the last two weeks or so and with some new technology (a hand crank bobbin winder and five storage bobbins) and some advice (replace drive band), I got it off the wheel and plied it in a day on the wheel. It's a three ply yarn and super duper soft. Ended up being about 350 yards of yarn.





I attempted some flax spinning yesterday and it isn't quite right so I need to fiddle with it some more. Blessings to the bobbin gods, because I pulled it off my wheel and onto a bobbin and started spinning up this beautiful roving. It's from targhee sheep and it is wonderful to spin because I can long draw it so easily and I don't need to pre-draft it at all, I can spin it pretty much right from the braid which I super love.



and the color is amazing!!! I've got two braids of this, so 8oz total and I think I'm going to do a 2 ply yarn with it.

I think when I finish this braid, I'm going to attempt some more flax and then go to the second braid. I also received some lovely roving in the mail today from a ravelry buy so I'm a happy camper. 
 

Comments

[graydon]

That is an amazing shade of blue! With the white it kinda looks like you've got the result of some mad scientist managing to cross a blue jay with a sheep.

Everybody says flax is hard; I hope things behave less irksomely with the next round.

That alpaca's one of those nameless dim colours, which I would suppose goes very well with being soft.

[unicornduke]

Llady Llama fiber co hand paints their roving and they do a great job with it. I love the colors they do. A lot of fiber I see, they try to do three or four colors and it doesn't always look good but this shop does an amazing job with two colors and different shades.

I suspect I need to spin the flax finer. Towards the end of my trying it was behaving better so there always another day to fiddle with it.

This alpaca is a jet black and so nice. I need to figure out what to do with it because I don't want it to sit around.

[tielan]

That blue is spectacular! And wow the alpaca wool!

[unicornduke]

Thanks!