Today the sun is shinning and I've been washing a bit of fleece-more about that later, I've also emptied another bag of odd this time commercially dyed merino that was passed onto me maybe two years ago. I've added some dyed BFL that was hanging around and separated the colours.
So I started with this
Separated the colours into this
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| Then attacked it with the drum carder! |
Result 135 gm of soft batts ready to spin !
That s just about it for now, time to find my knitting and finish the mitts :-) Have a great weekend xx
8 comments:
Fabulous colours, especially well matched. It will be good to see how they knit up once spun. A bit worried about you having a gaol though. ;-)
ooops , should proof read, not spell check hehe
Gorgeous colors! Just what I needed on this dreary cold day. Now I want to go play with rainbows too.....
thanks, I've spent the day doing some dyeing of my own, see next post :-)
OMG! Yum! Can you send that my way? Oh and pack the drum carder up for me too! Soooo jealous! :D
--eluzaduckie
eluzaduckie-Hi, I'm going to try and split each batt before I spin so I get a two ply that slowly changes shade, should look good in a shawl but often I don't get round to knitting with it. Would be lost without the drum carder and wool combs! thanks for dropping by x
Gorgeous colours
Maggi-Thanks x
Janys- when you take the fibre off the drumcarder, it comes off in ine piece so you have an elongated rectangle of hopefully soft fibre called a batt, you can then pull this into strips to spin from x
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