Originally posted on Livejournal, summer 2004
Originally posted on Livejournal, summer 2004
I had packed 500 yards and over 5 oz on the Woolee Winder and… http://ucan.foad.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=oil-slick I just could not get the last little bit on there. So I wound all 3 plies into a pull-from-either-end butterfly type thing (hey, it works!) and then took the *other* end of the 3, and plied it with a […]
A few highlights from my photo gallery for the study I did in 2004 of handspun boucle yarns, found here: http://ucan.foad.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=boucles The first, a blend of New Zealand Brush Tail Possum (whatever that is, it’s neat stuff though) and coopworth, with rayon binder. I tried to do this all 3 strands at once and it’s […]
First you take this: (coopworth/alpaca blend from Jehovah Jireh Farm) and then you make it into this handspun single-ply yarn: Which then in turn gets plied with this iridescent commercial flossy stuff for a binder: And then it looks like this: Then, ply it one more time with the binder, in the opposite direction from […]
From yarn that I spun from fibers that I dyed and blended… mohair/soy silk for the pinkish, mohair/tussah silk for the white, and tussah silk dyed with easter egg dye for the “mouldy green” part. All are single-ply yarns, and I did the blending with a drum carder. Raw materials… er at least, partly done […]