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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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I've finally finished plying the results of my #TourDeFleece2026 spinning of my heritage breed samplers! They still need to be finished (washed, thwacked, etc.)
All but the outer two hanks are from 50g of fiber. The Lonk on the left is ~30g, spun after I gave up on my Nano, and the Alpaca on the right was 30g from the start. In between, quite a bit of variation in texture, softness, and diameter.
The Jacob "natural stripe" is sadly more muddy than I'd hoped! The singles had some distinct stripey character in places, but that tended to get muddled when twined with not-so-distinct sections. Oh well! It's still a nice heather effect.
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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Oh hey! I finally have all my Tibetan Mastiff and/or merino swatches together for comparison!
Left to right: 3x prep/spin variants of 100% fur, 1x 25% wool, 2x 33% wool, 1x 50% wool. All are 3-ply. The fabric is somewhat dense for the blends in the middle: I probably should have gone up in needle size for the yarn, but I was keeping that factor the same between the swatches.
While the 75% fur (3:1 blend) seemed nice and fuzzy as yarn, similar to the 100% fur, it came out distinctly less fuzzy in the swatch. I now wonder what only 10% wool would be like, but I don't want to keep running tests until I run out of fiber to actually work with!
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can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented.
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can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented.
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can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented.
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can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented.
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can you imagine, a birthday present completed more than a month in advance?! unheard of. unprecedented.
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it's #Caturday and Rosie is very proud of the shawl we knit together. mostly her, of course, I was just there for the parts that needed thumbs.
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it's #Caturday and Rosie is very proud of the shawl we knit together. mostly her, of course, I was just there for the parts that needed thumbs.
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it's #Caturday and Rosie is very proud of the shawl we knit together. mostly her, of course, I was just there for the parts that needed thumbs.
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it's #Caturday and Rosie is very proud of the shawl we knit together. mostly her, of course, I was just there for the parts that needed thumbs.
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it's #Caturday and Rosie is very proud of the shawl we knit together. mostly her, of course, I was just there for the parts that needed thumbs.
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Would plying this with a cream/white reduce the patriotic flag feeling? (‘Twas a gift) or maybe a brown? I have some camel fiber in a warm brown …
Merino, silk, bamboo (I think), from das Wollschaf (I think), spun from the fold.
#spinning #handspinning #FiberArts -
Would plying this with a cream/white reduce the patriotic flag feeling? (‘Twas a gift) or maybe a brown? I have some camel fiber in a warm brown …
Merino, silk, bamboo (I think), from das Wollschaf (I think), spun from the fold.
#spinning #handspinning #FiberArts -
Would plying this with a cream/white reduce the patriotic flag feeling? (‘Twas a gift) or maybe a brown? I have some camel fiber in a warm brown …
Merino, silk, bamboo (I think), from das Wollschaf (I think), spun from the fold.
#spinning #handspinning #FiberArts -
Would plying this with a cream/white reduce the patriotic flag feeling? (‘Twas a gift) or maybe a brown? I have some camel fiber in a warm brown …
Merino, silk, bamboo (I think), from das Wollschaf (I think), spun from the fold.
#spinning #handspinning #FiberArts -
And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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One really tiny physical change on the eSpinner would make it much easier for me to use without needing to think or look things up.
Instead of the vertical S/Z switch, make it switch from side to side - tilted to the right = clockwise = z, tilted to the left = anti-clockwise = s.
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One really tiny physical change on the eSpinner would make it much easier for me to use without needing to think or look things up.
Instead of the vertical S/Z switch, make it switch from side to side - tilted to the right = clockwise = z, tilted to the left = anti-clockwise = s.
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One really tiny physical change on the eSpinner would make it much easier for me to use without needing to think or look things up.
Instead of the vertical S/Z switch, make it switch from side to side - tilted to the right = clockwise = z, tilted to the left = anti-clockwise = s.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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