The last entry I had started spinning 2 colors of Corriedale blends. The blue aqua is 55/45 Corriedale and fawn Suri alpaca and the grey is 50/50 Corriedale and grey Suri alpaca. I also had that skein of silk dyed by Dicentra. My original plan of spinning all singles and then plying 1/4 each grey/blue, grey/grey, blue/blue, and a blue/grey/silk sort of happened.
I ended up with 10.5 oz of 1086 yards in 6 skeins. Starting from the left: 2 ply aqua, 2 ply aqua/silk, 2 ply aqua/grey, 3 ply aqua/grey/silk, 2 ply grey/silk, and finally 2 ply grey. No sure what it will turn into yet, but it is quite lovely! Maybe a large lacy shawl. But then again, a rosepath twill woven shawl might be just the thing! Make this the warp and black silk or Tencel for the weft.
The next spin I’ve been working on is Australian grey Merino. This was a lovely grease fleece that I ordered along with some other fibers, in particular, lapp silk which is another story. I scoured the fleece and carded it with my Pat Green drum carder. I left a bit of the grease in so the spinning was easy and the fibers didn’t slip away from me. It is a dark variable grey at about 40wpi. I only have about 8 oz of this lovely fleece. So I am also spinning 50/50 yak/silk at the same weight to ply with the Merino. I found that cross lacing on the flier eased the draw in so I can spin even finer without working too hard on it. So far, I have 2 bobbins of the Merino and about 1/4 of the yak/merino. Off to spin the rest of the bobbin so I can ply the Merino with the yak/silk and see how I like it. But, what is not to like!
