Wednesday WIPing 1/23/08

How sweet it is.  316 yards of spun softness.  My first skein from the lovely new wheel.  The fiber: Tranquility, my blend of angora and cormo.  I spun a single of three ounces, then  wound it into a center pull ball and 2 plied it from both ends of the ball.  I'm not sure which pleases me more, the spun result or the spin as it happened.  In any case, there will be more of it, enough for some kind of knitting project. 

Pretty much the instant I finished plying and skeining Tranquility, I pulled out a batt I made a couple months ago and started playing with that on Lovely Miss Hall.  Insert Tim Taylor's famous "oh oh oh oh oh" sounds of satisfaction here.  Thin, baby.  Thin.  And I'm loving it.  I've only got one ounce of this prepared.  I started with a few test handfuls of some locks of pure love, a soft moorit corrie x fleece I picked up at SAFF, I think in 2006.   I washed the fleece  here at home in my washing machine, pulled out a handful for fast drying, then decided those locks deserved a bit of menage a trois so I sent them through my drum carder with equally lovely ladies Fawn Angora and Tussah Silk.  The batt looks a bit neppy, but a thin spin seems to be taking care of that.  As I spun, visions of diaphanous lace floated through the old noggin.  I've got just shy of two pounds of these locks.  I'm debating: do I send it off for blending or tackle the whole thing myself?  A very long term WIP if I do it all myself but what lot of fabulous fondling I'd get out of it.  And perhaps learn not to nep.

The mittens: not quite finished but close.  My goal: finish them today. It's damn cold out there.  I'm not crazy about the how the thumbs are coming out but if the recipient doesn't like them, they'll become barn  mittens for me. 

That's about all I got done with fiber this past week.  Doing more of other things and less of fibering gives my neck a rest from all that looking down.  But less fibering is it's own pain the neck!

Comments

[Risa]

mmmmmmm that fiber looks gorgeous and boy your spinning is getting fine!

[Christine]

Looking good!

[Dave Daniels]

NICE spinning on the new wheel. I'm still petting and coveting the blend I got from you, soon to be spun. I guess you and the new wheel are getting along well.

[Anne]

That's about all? Seems like a whole lot to me......

[Jessica]

Geez... this post couldn't be any more drool worthy!!