The Spun Stash
This was the first of the alpaca to be spun. It has a little of every color in it and it uneven and bulky and hilarious – but I can’t hate on it.
Another overeager sample skein in which I am too impatient to wait to card or even be ready to move on to the next color. May also have the added benefit of coming before the bit where I learned to pick out grass and oddments prior to spinning.
Clean, single ply alpaca.
The whole pile of creamy alpaca. Some of it is two ply, some of it is single ply chunky…I think there is even a Navajo (chain type) ply in there……this makes it useless for one large project. Isn’t learning fun?
Sample of unknown fiber content from SAFF 2008.
My first and only BFL – felt lovely if a little coarse. I was excited as it was the first commercial dyed roving braid i bought and spun.
The black alpaca, all two ply. This is half of a girl named Oreo.
The fawn alpaca…..mostly Navajo ply.
Some Louet fiber from a LYS. Merino/silk top in a color called Lichen.
This was my answer to not having a way to raise sheep or alpacas but still be a fiber farmer! Container grown Nankeen cotton.
The fiber that sparked my desire to spin. It was a soft ball of silky feeling fibers and a gift from my Mom. I used the Navajo ply technique on this one too because I thought the way it worked like a giant chain stitch would preserve the color changes and be less likely to give a twirled barber pole stripe as it may have if I had done a traditional two or three ply.
From the Knit Witch, a buttery superwash merino roving (about 110 grams) became 147 yards of Navajo plied goodies!
