Fiber from Fiber Fancy - Clique

Merino/bamboo 534 yards fingering, 2 ply.

Next up, the yarn of DOOM...

Fat Cat Knits - Wizard Island
What started out as beautiful colors of soft fluff


Ended up in colors of crunchy mess.


This yarn was hell to spin. Not because of anything the dyer did, or the fiber mill, or even the sheep. It was hell to spin because about one fourth into it, my bobbin broke. I didn't notice it at first so as I was happily spinning away the yarn started imbedding itself and tangling itself in ways that, once I realized what was happening, took me hours to dig back out. I think I even had to cut some of it. I'm not sure. I've blocked that day from my memory.

Once I did get it all untangled and rewound onto my Doctor Who spindle and got spinning again, my spindle fell apart. By this time it was late and I'd had about all I could handle so, I set it down for a couple of days until I could deal with it again. I finally got it wound onto another bobbin but somehow had put the bobbin on backwards (don't ask how I didn't notice) and didn't notice it until the bobbin was nearly full and not spinning the way it should. I now have rub marks where any sane spinner should not make rub marks on their wheel.

The end result is 494 yards of ill spun, ill plied, 'crunchy' in places, yarn of pretty colors.

That refuse to show up for the camera.

Still working on all the yarn I've spun this year and have neglected to record until now.

From Fiber Fancy fiber - Culture Club/Boy George

268 yards of 2 ply fingering Polworth.

This one is from Into The Whirled
It's called: Captain Tight Pants from the Firefly collection.


422 yards of lace weight wool and something else which I forgot to keep records on.

By the way, if you haven't seen this show and the following movie, Serenity, do. The show is so much better than the plying job I did on this yarn.

"Once again unto the...

Random Falkland.
142 yards worsted weight.


The paws belong to Chica, my daughter's cat. She was very helpful while her owner took all the photos for me.

A study in thick

This was an attempt to spin thicker yarn. If I'm just enjoying myself spinning I almost always spin an automatic fingering weight. I don't do much spinning for an actual knitting/crocheting/weaving project, I just spin because I enjoy it so much.

This yarn, however, I have plans for. I would like to knit them into mittens. I've never knitted mittens before but all the patterns I see call for thicker than fingering so I spun this beautiful braid up into two sport weight skeins.

Fiber Fancy's Beatles Club
Revolution in merino/mohair
Sport weight 178 yards total.



I think these would make beautiful mittens but will 178 yards be enough?

And back to:

Fiber Fancy

80's Music Club- Guns & Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
384 yards of light fingering Merino/SW merino/Tussah silk.