Doesn't look like I have done much since the last update but I have skirted 3 lambs fleeces, washed them along with a grey alpaca saddle which is now a lovely white lol and flick carding a lovely light silver grey corriedale and spinning it in the grease. Dirty work but I will be back with photos of that when I nearly have it all done. Going to be a while as it was a 2kg fleece with next to no grass and burrs to be seen! Still fascinates me how such a dirty smelly fleece and turn out.
So with nothing left on needles or hooks I pulled out the balls of sunset rolags I spun up and made this crochet scarf yesterday while watching the Anzac Day ceremonies on tv.
The fibre muster is on in Echuca this weekend so Mum and I were there nice and early this morning. Lots of lovely things to see and could have spent a small fortune. I now have some more tussah silk I have been waiting on so can spin up another 50gms and get the 'owl' colourway plied off with it. Also picked up a nice book and some angelina in two different colours to pop away for my birthday next month. I am saving up to hopefully attend the Bendigo Sheep and Wool show this year. A lot of the people on the facebook fibre forum are going to it to either sell on stalls or to show their fleeces and sheepies. Will make up my mind when I see the weather on the day lol. Not going if it is horrid!
So better get those socks blocked and then do some nice relaxing spinning. The poor wheel hasn't been touched since a week before my cold!
5 comments:
Love the socks and the scarf. Isn't it wonderful when things move to the finished pile.
A year of spinning and you're making so many lovely things from the yarn you've made.
Enjoy working your wheel with the next lot of fibres.
Wow, Katherine, you are getting good at all this wool stuff :-)
I keep missing you, forgetting to scroll to the bottom of my list, sorry :-)
xx
All lovely things, Katherine. Sounds as if there is a lot more to come, too! Glad you 're feeling better.
"Fibre muster!" Sounds like a lot of fun! I think that would be a great title for a book, or maybe even a tv series. So many new things I'm learning from you, Katherine! You're producing such interesting yarns these days.
I'm glad you're feeling better, too. :D
All that gorgeous wooly stuff looks so cosy Katherine, especially being that it's a bit cold here today.
I hope the Muster is interesting, & maybe a purchase or two?!
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