January 18, 2011
busy handwork
i have begun to steadily work through a year-long membership of monthly 8 oz. raw fiber shipments (one of natchwoolie's fiber of the month clubs) which i had received as a birthday gift from mom and dad. i received the last shipment in july 2010 and had been storing most of those shipments unprocessed.
for some insane reason, at the height of my normal gift making season, i decided that i just had to finish washing up all of the unprocessed fiber in the house. at the time, i had about ten 8 oz packages of various fiber, in addition to two complete icelandic lamb fleeces which i bought from misty meadow icelandics back in november 2009.
well, i managed to finish washing most of that fiber before christmas. i have about three-quarters of one of the lamb fleeces still remaining.
i chose the multi-color border leicester wool to hand-card and spin on my newest bosworth spindle. this is probably the slowest way to process and spin this fiber and i may actually end up carding the rest of the fiber with the drum carder, diz it off into roving and then spin it on the spinning wheel -- but for now, i am enjoying the slowness of the process.
Posted by lesleeroberts at January 18, 2011 11:38 PM