Fugly. But fun!
Okay. I’m kind of embarrased to show you this. But I’m going to anyway. Because I’m so proud of it! It’s my very first hank of my very own handspun yarn guys! I even plied it and everything!
So I spun up some of that pretty merino roving that I showed you in my last post. Then I spun up all of the bits of fiber that I had lying round onto the other drop spindle that I have. My teacher gave us bits of wool, angora, and silk to play with. I also had some green wool that somebody else gave me two years ago. I think there was also camel among the fibers that I had. I also spun up some dog hair. Yes, you heard me right. I have a box of dog hair that I have been moving around with me for two or three years. It is from my friend, Gail’s dogs. She started saving her dog hair when she went to a dog show and saw some handspun yarn from various dog breeds. She gave it to me three years ago when I told her I wanted to learn how to spin yarn. I’m finally getting around to spinning it. Here are a couple of balls that I have spun up:
I am going to ply it with wool. In fact, after I post this I’m going to a fiber store here in Spokane called Paradise Fibers to buy some cream colored wool to spin up and ply with this. As you can tell, the dog hair is very fuzzy. It looks and feels very much like Angora. I read somewhere that plying it with wool is good so that the finished product isn’t super hot.
In a few days I will show you what I’m doing for Socktoberfest! For now, I will leave you with my finished Loll back. I wanted to at least finish the back of her before she gets tucked away again while I work on socks and gifts for Christmas.
8 comments October 2nd, 2006