Dear Mom,
Remember last spring, when I took all that beautiful angora fiber from Duncan, your adorable rabbit, and some black alpaca that was given to me, and some gorgeous mohair (another gift) to the Fiber Event to be dropped off for processing?
Well, it's here.
And it is beautiful.
And boyohboy do I have my spinning "work" cut out for me! (okay, we all know it isn't work.)
I chose to have half of the angora blended with some coral merino wool, and the other half blended with a teal merino wool. Both blends and 80% merino/20% angora. More angora than that and the garment would be too hot to wear. The mohair was also blended with merino, but with white merino so I can dye it if I choose, and see the shimmer of the mohair against the merino. That will be fun to play with. The black alpaca was blended with a peacock merino. The color is gorgeous.
I've already started spinning the coral. It is a dream to spin.
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| This is the coral blend (obviously) with the mohair blend behind it. |
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| And the teal in front of the peacock. Getting an accurate color photo of these blues was tricky. This is the best I could do. |
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| The heavenly mohair/merino blend |
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| Olive says, "ACK! Where are you going to put all that stuff?!" |
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| "Just don't block my view!" Lots of squirrel watching out there. |
Kim
