Mon 08 Apr 13
Sun 04 Mar 12
Thu 15 Dec 11
Mordant – BFL
Mordanting a pound of BFL with alum and cream of tartar in preparation for dying:
Sun 11 Dec 11
About half a BFL lamb – picked, carded, and ready to spin
This will be used for the dying experiments:
Thu 08 Dec 11
Learnng About Merino
Brown merino fleece after washing:
Blending merino and Opal (Border leiscester/Romney Mix) in the picker prior to carding:
Compare this to Opal alone out of the picker:
Left is pure Opal, middle is a sage purchased roving, right is 50/50 merino/Opal
Three balls of yarn prior to making hanks: Pure Opal, 50/50 Opal/brown merino, and pure merino, left to right:
Wed 23 Nov 11
Fibre Prep – Frenchi
Washed the fleece of an Icelandic lamb named Frenchi, ancient breed, very odd fleece, looking forward to working with it to see how it behaves:
