Sunday, 9 November 2014

Ixchel Club Fibre

The two fibre clubs I joined arrived a couple of weeks ago and I spent last Saturday spinning them up while enjoying a spinning day with my Mum and over the remainder of this week before heading off to a spin in over at Benalla yesterday.  More on that later.

Fibre content:  angora, stainless steel, silk, eco merino, rose, suri, silk, hemp, cashmire and angelina

Fibre content: eco merino, cashmere, glitz, suri, silk, angora and alpaca


At the moment they are still singles and will need to be plyed with something else.  I am thinking a blend of grey merino and grey alpaca for both.  Both the batt and the braid had lots of bling in them and while I loved spinning both I am happier with the braid as the other has spun up more 'arty' than I was expecting due to lots of sari silk threads and neps in the middle of the batt.  It is gorgeous and soft but very different.  But that is the reason behind joining in the clubs over three months because they will be completely different to what I normally would spin and also experiencing different fibres as sometimes it is the fibre that dictates how thick or thin or how much twist etc you need to use as I thought initially I would be able to spin the batt as a thin single rather than the thickish one I have ended up with.

1 comment:

Jillian said...

These are really interesting. Interested to see what effect the hemp has on the mix - does it strengthen it? I reckon these are going to be really exciting to see knitted.