tdf day 11

I got a little side tracked yesterday and started spinning this

100% Tussah Silk
It's fun to spin but when you have record breaking heat and humidity again, like we are having, it sticks all over you and falls apart before you can spin it.

Texel
Again I bought 4 ounces from the Spinning Loft

I washed it up and carded it. A very large portion of it was second cuts. Something I was surprised to see considering where I bought the fiber. This wool is so soft and yummy that I didn't want to toss any of it out so I decided to card it as is.
I completely forgot to get a picture of the rollags, but here's a picture of it as it's being spun.

I am not a lover of art yarn. I just don't get it, but this stuff is made of fun. I tried to keep as many of the second cuts on the 'outside' of the spun yarn as I could so that it wouldn't be lumpy so much as having a pomp pomp affect. The two singles looked like a poodle with a bad hair cut but once I plied them the yarn became more lumpy than pomp pompish.

and by the time it got washed it looked like a yarn that was just badly spun.

It lost most of it's pomp pomps in the plying and when it got wet it fuzzed up and became lumpy. Still, it's so very extra soft. Another type of wool that I'd love to have an entire fleece of to play with.

watched: VH1 classic, Alice Cooper documentary, Fraggle Rock, Green Day documentary, The George Burns and Gracie Allen show.

tdf day 10

This is supposed to be a rest day. Oui, rest? I have to catch up on housework, paperwork, meal planning, houseplant care, blogs, laundry....

I'll be busier today than when I'm spinning. There's something wrong with that.

eta: The only way I can get Ravelry to accept pictures is if I post them here and take that address to post there, so, here's the complete write up on the Perendale.
I bought 4 ounces from the Spinning Loft

I washed it (it dried at 3.6 ounces) and Cara combed it for me.

While I was spinning the singles I wasn't too impressed. It reminded me a lot of the Cheviot I've spun. Once I started plying it though, it grew some character and now I quiet like it.

tdf day 9

I finished the Perendale but washed it without taking pictures first, so that pic will have to wait.

This is Texel (on the spindles) from the Spinning Loft. The 4oz sample was half second cuts, so, to keep from throwing half of it out I'm spinning it into the yarn and making pom pom like yarn. Or as I like to call it, Poodle yarn. The mini skein is BFL from the Phat fiber June box sci fi, Predator vs Alien colorway by Fiber Fancy.

A better picture of the BFL.


Watched: hours and hours of VH1's 100 greatest count down. Then, because the Beatles were number one we had to watch A Hard Day's Night to celebrate, Fraggle Rock, and Ferris Bueller.

tdf day 8

Wow. I didn't even realize that yesterday marked the one week mark.
Accomplished so far

I finished half of the 4oz braid of Monarch, 2 ply Romney, and 2 ply Black Welsh. I'm also half way through some Perendale but I didn't start working on that until after dark so no picture yet.

Watched: Foo Fighters concert, Heavy Metal on VH1, Phantom of the Opera, and Amadeus.

tdf day 7

I am really in danger of burn out. This 4 ounces is taking forever to spin. What's on the spindle isn't even half of the braid and I've all ready put a LOT of hours into it.

Watched: a documentary on Rush *loves* and something else. I can't remember what it was.

tdf day 6

Day 6? Already?!

I took the kids to the zoo today so I only got in a few minutes spinning time this morning.

Watched: my coffee getting cold.

tdf day 5

This is beautiful in person but it's a slow spin.

More 'war wounds!'

Cara has been combing wool with me while I spin. This is what happens when you drop the comb.
Tomboy toes!

Watched: lots of classic VH1 stuff and Ferris Bueller.