Finally!
I can post!
I'm reallllllly hoping that I can get Beta blogger or something soon. I'm sick of faffing around with this.
So! Fluff from the Sasha! 
Three lovely green batts of Rambouillet fluff. Rainbow colors, mostly green. From Rowan Tree Woolery they came!
Along with a little bag of sample fluff too! 
Samples of white and gray Rambouillet, pencil roving (gray Rambouillet), green and white silk, and pinky-cream silk. I enjoyed spinning these. I took each sample, spun about a yard or two, and moved on to the next. Then plied back on itself. 
The sample yarn specs:
21 g/0.74 oz
62 m/68 yds
2-ply, DK-sport weight.
50% silk, 50% Rambouillet wool.
Enough maybe for some cool stripes in something? Nate likes this yarn. And I spun it thinking I might not like the end yarn. But I do!
Oh, and I couldn't resist:
I started spinning the batts too. Not super easy to draft. But, super fast! And, I really like the nepps and noils left in. This isn't a smooth, even yarn. But we must listen to the fiber. To what it wants to be. And so I let it be neppy and noily, and I like it. (Even though mostly I try for even yarn...I can let that go in pursuit of happy fiber).
posted by Sarah @ 8:38 AM
2 Comments:
I love doing those little "sampling" skeins - a bit of this, a bit of that - throw in some kitchen sink, and ply it back on itself - haven't done one of those in a while, maybe it's time.
And I just love the colours of the neppy stuff, that's very pretty! I've had some wools that are neppy and noily, and you just have to let it do it's thing. I couldn't even imagine trying to get a smooth even yarn out of a prep like that. Talk about crazy making!
Have fun!
How are the socks coming?
Wow, I was kind of on the fence on how that would look when just seeing the fluff in it's virgin fluff state, but that turned out really cool!!!
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