Fiber roundup

[unicornduke]

I finished a bunch of fiber last weekend. Finishing is the actual process of hot soaking spun yarn to set the twist, poof it up if it's prone to it and get the full characteristics of the yarn set before used as a finished product.

So I did some of the project fibers that I've been working on, Icelandic, Angora rabbit and Herdwick, all of which had been plyed and were just sitting there. And then some BFL and Cormo that were from dyers. I got some Zwartbles singles spun for the project, just needs to be plyed and I'm currently working on some purple mystery fiber that is spinning extremely fine. No pics of those though. I'll post them another day.

I'm also almost done with a sweater with some of the blue/white handspun targhee and as it turns out, the most annoying thing is getting the sleeves finished. I'll probably get that done today or tomorrow. 

Icelandic


Angora (rabbit)


Herdwick




I also finished blue faced leicester from a dyer I like, first chain plying, looks nice.




And then I spun this Cormo, which ended up being very fine and lovely. I also chain plyed it.

Comments

[graydon]

Pretty string!