First I had to ply some nice yarn to empty my bobbins. The natural oatmeal with flecks of medium brown is a soft, smooshy 2 ply shetland with about 2oo yards of yarn. I also had about 80 yards of lilac lace weight yarn spun from roving I got at Serenity Farms. Cary raises wonderful Corriedale sheep and I've never been dissappointed with fleece or roving I've gotten from her.
Next, it was treat time! I stripped the roving into pieces about as thick as my thumb and divided it into two piles approximately the same weight and started spinning. It's going to make a thick fingering, not quite sport weight and and I'm planning on plying it with a similar single of white alpaca. When I sampled just the 2 ply, the colors almost looked like I was making John Deere yarn and while that's not a terrible thing, it isn't what I wanted. By adding the white single it broke it up and I still had the colors that looked like sunshine or a field of sunflowers.
I'm putting it in to soak then letting it dry while I run to the feed store. Hopefully I'll have a new knit scarf up soon.
First I had to ply some nice yarn to empty my bobbins. The natural oatmeal with flecks of medium brown is a soft, smooshy 2 ply shetland with about 2oo yards of yarn. I also had about 80 yards of lilac lace weight yarn spun from roving I got at Serenity Farms. Cary raises wonderful Corriedale sheep and I've never been dissappointed with fleece or roving I've gotten from her.
Next, it was treat time! I stripped the roving into pieces about as thick as my thumb and divided it into two piles approximately the same weight and started spinning. It's going to make a thick fingering, not quite sport weight and and I'm planning on plying it with a similar single of white alpaca. When I sampled just the 2 ply, the colors almost looked like I was making John Deere yarn and while that's not a terrible thing, it isn't what I wanted. By adding the white single it broke it up and I still had the colors that looked like sunshine or a field of sunflowers. 
I'm putting it in to soak then letting it dry while I run to the feed store. Hopefully I'll have a new knit scarf up soon.
oh, I love the yarn plied with the white alpaca! It looks great!
ReplyDeleteAnd my doggie is named Bailey, too! Too funny.
Thank you for the kind words about our fiber and roving, Nancy...right back at you!!! I have loved everything I have ever gotten from you ;D
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