Tag: wool spinning

  • *cackles* I managed to get 400g of ‘ice cream’ merino & milk fibre singles on my bobbin. I’m planning to measure off 3 equal lengths of singles to 3 ply with a sparkly silver thread.

  • I noticed that the Royal Easter Show had a category for an item made completely from handspun. So I did something crazy & spent December/Jan crocheting up the shawl my ‘Sunburnt Country’ handspun was destined for to enter the category. Regardless of how successful this piece will be in the competition, this shawl came out…

  • I fell into a pattern of simply filling up spindles over the last few months. So here’s the 100s of meters of thread that needs to be de-spindled, plyed, & finished.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 23. A misleadingly named blend of merino, corridale, & tussah silk. Honestly, I was rather unimpressed by with the vile colour choices.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 22. Candle flame yellow shetland, sari silk, & BFL blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 21. This is a superfine merino & suri alpaca blend.

  • Decided to try colour control using some wooly witch rolags. These were the popsicle colourway and not all the rolag colours matched up across the rolags, so I tried to separate out so light & dark colours would end up together. This is a 3ply and I think considering it’s my first go at colour…

  • WoW fibre advent Day 20. GREEN!! This is a corridale & stellina blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 19. This is a shimmery merino & nylon blend.

  • WoW fibre advent Day 18. Today’s blend is a beautiful fawn eider & wool.