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I took the entirety of Saturday to do relaxing things. I did workout but that was it. I made a test batch of chocolate custard for Thanksgiving, since I've been tasked with dessert and breads and since I'm travelling Sunday, I want something I can make Saturday and freeze. I wanted to see if the custard would freeze okay. Something went very weird and it ended up extremely thick but delicious, more like a thick mousse. The test batch is now out of the freezer and I need to taste test it but will be making if nothing goes very wrong. Custard does okay freezing.
Otherwise, I laid around, playing video games all morning. Then I spun the alpaca and started combing the mohair fleece. It's jumped to the top of the queue since it has a deadline and I like a self imposed challenge. It's a bit hard to comb in that you can only put a small amount on the combs at a time since it puffs up so much in combing. I'm just laying the combed blobs out in the basket, I'm not actually sure how I'll fit a fleece's worth of combed fiber in the basket. I did spin a tiny sample and it's very pretty even if I put too much ply twist in. Definitely outwear. But I'm also saving the combing waste because I think I can card and blend that with some of the mystery fleece for sock yarn someday. Mystery fleece is one I sheared off a sheep that was a pet but it's very pretty and possibly Romney or a medium wool.
Sunday I did things. I didn't want to at first but once I got moving, I felt better. I got the other half of the merino fleece soaking, then went and worked on the shed. Main project was building a wood rack for the wood I have in there, which is mostly rough cut 2x4s although at this point, they are so dry I could probably start planing them for woodworking projects. I need to buy hand planes somewhere. They were originally used to stabilize the shed when we skidded it and they were very wet at that point, but a year in the shed has done them good. There was one mouse nest in the wood when I moved the pile, but that's because I used stickers in that level that were an inch thick. I moved the pile to the middle of the shed, swept, then went back to the fleece.
( rambles and some pictures )
Otherwise, I laid around, playing video games all morning. Then I spun the alpaca and started combing the mohair fleece. It's jumped to the top of the queue since it has a deadline and I like a self imposed challenge. It's a bit hard to comb in that you can only put a small amount on the combs at a time since it puffs up so much in combing. I'm just laying the combed blobs out in the basket, I'm not actually sure how I'll fit a fleece's worth of combed fiber in the basket. I did spin a tiny sample and it's very pretty even if I put too much ply twist in. Definitely outwear. But I'm also saving the combing waste because I think I can card and blend that with some of the mystery fleece for sock yarn someday. Mystery fleece is one I sheared off a sheep that was a pet but it's very pretty and possibly Romney or a medium wool.
Sunday I did things. I didn't want to at first but once I got moving, I felt better. I got the other half of the merino fleece soaking, then went and worked on the shed. Main project was building a wood rack for the wood I have in there, which is mostly rough cut 2x4s although at this point, they are so dry I could probably start planing them for woodworking projects. I need to buy hand planes somewhere. They were originally used to stabilize the shed when we skidded it and they were very wet at that point, but a year in the shed has done them good. There was one mouse nest in the wood when I moved the pile, but that's because I used stickers in that level that were an inch thick. I moved the pile to the middle of the shed, swept, then went back to the fleece.
( rambles and some pictures )
