Yarn progress report..
Feb. 9th, 2007 02:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemis42Well, here's what I've gotten from starting fuzz to finished skein in the past week and a half. Still a few unfinished full bobbins, waiting on the lazy kate to be plied to something else. I'm averaging between 100-200 yards per skein on the Lendrum so far, which has much larger bobbins than the antique wheel.
From left to right, a skein of sandalwood merino wool plied with black alpaca, then a bulky thick-and-thin of carded domestic wool, merino and alpaca plied with black alpaca next to a skein of llama wool spun thin and plied to about fingering-dk weight, I guess. Next, 2 skeins of different multicolored merino wool blended with silk, then a skein with cranberry multicolored merino plied to a lovely multicolored merino-silk blend, then sandalwood merino plied with a custom blended blue, and the last is 100% multicolored merino wool in garnet and cranberry. Yum.
The antique wheel likes to spin thin yarns with me, mostly because it's not fond of plying bulky yarns one bit, and the small bobbin and flyer unit makes larger weight yarns impractical in my current production mode, since I'd probably only get 75 yds to a skein. Much nicer to use it for the thinner thread-like yarns it was designed to make.
My goal for this coming month of March, to shift production mode from the festivals to my own weaving project, warped with a commercial cotton-linen blend, but wefted with my own handspun! Now I just have to figure out what to make, and with which fibers.
Tonight's bedtime tea is inspired by Sam.. milk and malt ovaltine simmered carefully with chamomile. Double yum.
Later.
-Me.
From left to right, a skein of sandalwood merino wool plied with black alpaca, then a bulky thick-and-thin of carded domestic wool, merino and alpaca plied with black alpaca next to a skein of llama wool spun thin and plied to about fingering-dk weight, I guess. Next, 2 skeins of different multicolored merino wool blended with silk, then a skein with cranberry multicolored merino plied to a lovely multicolored merino-silk blend, then sandalwood merino plied with a custom blended blue, and the last is 100% multicolored merino wool in garnet and cranberry. Yum.
The antique wheel likes to spin thin yarns with me, mostly because it's not fond of plying bulky yarns one bit, and the small bobbin and flyer unit makes larger weight yarns impractical in my current production mode, since I'd probably only get 75 yds to a skein. Much nicer to use it for the thinner thread-like yarns it was designed to make.
My goal for this coming month of March, to shift production mode from the festivals to my own weaving project, warped with a commercial cotton-linen blend, but wefted with my own handspun! Now I just have to figure out what to make, and with which fibers.
Tonight's bedtime tea is inspired by Sam.. milk and malt ovaltine simmered carefully with chamomile. Double yum.
Later.
-Me.
