Quirks of a Fibrous Nature: Weekly accomplishments

Spare time. Ahhh, it is not common at this time of year. I am in the throes of nutcracker costume sewing and alterations. But still I find some time to call my own. Time to make things, a time to get rid of crankiness and a time to play.

I finished my bfl/ramie blend. I Navajo plied the single and created a small 42g skein. It looks silky and is soft. I will likely make more.

The colours are pale, not usually on my project queues, but I kind of like it! This will likely go into a pair of mitts, or some other small project.

I finished a Navajo 4 ply from malabrigo nube merino fibre, that I purchased at Deanne Fitzpatrick's shop. I spilt the hand dyed roving lengthwise and spun both the same. I then 4 plied Navajo style but altering the two singles in the 4 ply position. It is very soft and just over 100g.

Then, one night, I was cranky and I needed to crank something out fairly quickly to have a positive thing in my day. (Work was the pits, social life sucked, kids were trying my patience and I needed to be solitary. So I made a quick 50g skein of chunky BFL - alpaca. First, I blended alpaca across the hand carders with part-brown hand-dyed fleece artist wool and part-blue wool. I kept the two wools from blending but blended bothe with the alpaca. I spun 2 singles in thick and thin and plyed them together.

It's lofty, it was therapeutic. If only I could take my spinning wheel to work. I might be a better person there! Ha.

Lastly, I made this one tonight. A two ply yarn consisting of one single merino and one single merino/camel/nylon mix. It is so incredibly soft! The merino was a rainbow blend of many colours. It works perfectly with the blend. Which in its own is so soft. The end result is a yarn that would make a cute scarf or cowl.