There has been a breakout of fibre preparation. I got to the end of all my carded fibre. So I started going through what I had washed and otherwise ready to spin. Grey corriedale dyed with Eucalyptus Nicholii: before…
…after.
Polwarth dyed with indigo. Apparently overlooked last time I was carding…
Here it is ready to spin. Just one random batt.
Then there was some angora (rabbit)–just a handful. A Guild member was gifted this at the Royal Show last year by a rabbit breeder and since she couldn’t spin, I offered to dye it for spin it for her. I dyed it prior to the workshop I ran along with a huge batch of fibres for the workshop participants.
It was reeeeally short, and there was not very much. So I carded it into some natural white polwarth. Tweedy angora flecks?
I managed to spin it into a singles before I went to Guild, then plied it up for her on the night. Here’s a rough and ready photo. She was delighted. She is a tapestry weaver, so I feel sure this will find its way into a tapestry in due course!
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