Dyeing and Spinning

I had a lot of fun dyeing, blending and spinning this skein. I started with Alpaca, of course. I have a couple of pounds of white pencil roving from our pretty girl, White Lace.

I took about 1 1/2 oz of fiber and dyed them in two hues of pink. I then blended the darker pink with merino, cashmere, peony angelina, silk noil, banana silk and small amounts of colored merino. For the lighter pink yarn I started to core spin with an acrylic yarn. It is actually 50% wool/50% acrylic. I ended up wrapping it around my pink single. I had a bit of twist that relaxed when I plied the yarn. I ended up with 70 yards. Still deciding what I am going make from this skein.

I also had so much fun dyeing alpaca locks. I took 1 oz fiber from each of Floreanna and Delphine, my two yearlings, and over dyed the fiber. I used purple on the dark silver gray locks and flame red on the rose gray locks. I am planning on dyeing some more this week. I got busy with taxes and reorganizing my office and never got back to dyeing. Hum. I should have thought taking my office apart before I actually did it. I cannot even put one foot in the door. It looks as if a tornado swept through the room!



That is all from my farm for this week. Check out lots of wonderful fiber people at Wonder Why Gal and Natural Suburbia!