Showing posts with label Polwarth wool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polwarth wool. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Rewards of Spinning

 Yarn, 690 yards of Polwarth yarn, to add to the original yarn.
(which is a slightly different color brown--think similar but different yarn dye lots!)
I spelled it the wool breed wrong yesterday, it is POLWARTH , a breed from the southwest of Australia and also bred in New Zealand.  It is a cross between Merino rams and Merino/Lincoln ewes which means the fiber/yarn is next to skin soft with a bit of bounce!
Since it is what I do well now-sitting-I picked out the next small spin with only 4 ounces of Cotswold wool.  But more on that tomorrow!

(See who is on my lap?  It is the quilt crasher!
I did finish that last 24" of the quilt on the frame first thing in the morning
so I could remove it so that it would not be a hammock one more time! lol
When I removed it, I reached for the phone to snap a pic and realized I left it    w  a  y    b  a  c  k
in my room.  When I can manage sewing a binding, it will be given its proper attention then!)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

It was wonderful to be in the studio again-not just moving things around but actually sewing! The newest wall hanging was stitched without a...