Clown Hair and Sour Apples get married!



There's nothing like a wedding to cheer up a gloomy time of year.  Ok, so I'm talking about plying up 2 already bright singles into one very fun and exciting yarn - but whatever!  I've had so much fun with it over the last couple of days.  Here is the progression...

Here are some of my batts waiting to be spun.  Clockwise from top left they are
Sour Apples, Clown Hair, Koolaid Blue, and Blue Lagoon.


 
 






Clown hair being spun on my Lendrum
single treadle on the largest whorl.

The plying in action.  My daughter made a sign that says
"two spinny friends"

The final result!  A lumpy bumpy yarn with lots of color and texture.  I love it!

 





Oh yummy, yummy batts... how I love you!

Here is a fun little bunch of batts that I processed in 2010.  I am currently working on spinning them all in an attempt to destash my wool and have more lovely yarn to make more lovely garments.  The addiction keeps growing........

More Lovely Locks

As a continuation of yesterday's post, here are the BFL locks that were washed up and finally looking their best.

Here are the locks after another washing.

After teasing the locks, I started making a fluffy batt on my Ashford Wild drum carder.

And here is the completed batt weighing in at about 1 oz.  The colors are lovely, ranging from pale silver to fawn, much like my cat Punkin.  This batt will be like butter to spin and will make a soft yarn.

Lovely Locks

Every once in a while I find that I need to take a little break from the concentrated efforts I strive for daily and just enjoy my stuff.  More specifically, wool.  Those of you who are spinners will understand what I mean, sometimes you just want to get you hands on some and create a little yarn.

In my modest fiber stash, I have about a pound of BFL that was raw when I bought it and had been a bit difficult to degrease.  I pulled it out  yesterday when I should have been sewing and washed it again.  After drying outside I pulled it out of its tulle pouches and the result is soft and shiny, yummy wool that will not tolerate being sent back to the closet.  I will just have to add an extra project to my day now and card some up into an irresistable batt.