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Finished red dorset horn waste wool, that was used for packing & I combed. It’s ended up a really lovely tweedy yarn
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My final #TDF2024 efforts. I achieved my first thread plyed fractal and a chunky weight yarn, alongside 4 other skeins and masham singles that are now resting. I didn’t progress much on the cotton but I did learnt a lot about how to spin it. Plus, I got blackout on the TDF bingo challenge card!
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Ok, I’m now ready to tackle plying all my wheel bobbins!! All of these are going to be chain plyed to hopefully get a nice light DK weight yarn.
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TDF progress update! I have finished the fractal yarn, all the bobbins have now been plied, the brown icelandic single is finished, & the cotton is progressing. I also prepped 200g grams of ‘berry burst’ roving into rolags because I impulsively decided I needed a lofty woolen spin for the planned chunky yarn.
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I decided to be slightly more relaxed for TDF this year. My goals are to spin up the wools shown, as well as some egyptian cotton I prepped into rolags, – if everything is singles at the end I’m cool with that. I’m also doing a chill bingo from one of my discord fibre groups…
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I finished up the red dorset, managed to get a decent yield with the only waste being big matts/nepps. I’m planning to spin this on my new Allen Berry spindle to ‘break it in’.
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For TDF I’m prepping some egyptian cotton I got when I first started spinning. I’ve never spun cotton before but my first impressions are … I seriously don’t like the smell, it smells super weird in a bad funky kind of way even though it’s clean. I don’t think I’m a cotton person simply because…
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This was an interesting exercise. Both skeins are 100% yak with singles spindle spun supported at the same time. BUT left one was plyed end of last year using my usual method matching the ply twist to the singles twist on my plying drop. Meanwhile the right one was plyed recently on the drop except…
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Your work is beautiful! May I ask what your process for dyeing fiber is like? I’m interested in spinning yarn, but I’m also interested in dyeing roving for needle felting!
I actually don’t dye any fibre, so I unfortunately can’t comment in this. All the fibreI use is either natural, commercially dyed roving, or hand dyed by other dyers.