I plied the last of the Florida Gulf Native Sheep fiber. I have another 292 yards of two ply yarn in fingering weight.
The fiber is a good medium wool but softer than most.
There was quite a bit of vegetable matter in the fiber and I looked a blizzard of bits of chaff as I spun it but I expect the rest to wash out when I set the twist with a good bath!
I had run out of yarn for this pair of socks; well, it came and I whipped through to the sewn picot hem and cast on the second one! It is so good to have socks on the needles again!
I spent the afternoon cleaning up under the wheels. What a mess. Hay and fluff everywhere.
ReplyDeleteThat Gulf Coast is beautiful. It's a very pretty color. I still haven't knit anything with the Gulf Coast I spun last Tour. I need to go dig it out and give it a good swatching to see what it wants to be;
I put a sticky clothes roller by my seat so I could stop t h e spread of chaff! It was worth it; the yarn is great!
DeleteNice looking sock! :-)
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That yarn is pretty; it has more of a luster to it than I would expect to see in a picture of a wool yarn. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteHappy socks! I am itching to get back to mine -- hopefully with school starting again I will get knitting done during seatwork times!
I'm glad the yarn is softer than I'd expected! I can hear your blue sock calling you from here!
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