Recently we had a little holiday in our camper van in Spain. We travelled all around the San Sebastian area for 10 days. Obviously, I took my new spinning wheel (Louet Victoria) as this was bought specially for camping. I also took the last of the batts that I bought at Le Lot et la Laine festival which consisted of merino, alpaca, silk, soy, silk noil (I think), nettle and a bit of sparkle - 100g in all. When I bought this it was the nettle content that attracted me, never having spun nettle before. Well, the colours were really nice too!
I also took some black alpaca to mix with it, mainly to extend the amount of wool I'd have when finished, but also because I planned to ply it with a strand of black alpaca and I thought it would blend better. The pale colours plied with a strand of black alpaca would have given a definite barber-pole effect that I wanted to avoid.
Ready for plying :-
The finished skein -
240g, 415yds/383m
This is how it looks knitted, but I'm considering using this for my first adventure with my weaving loom - probably a scarf for hubby!
A little post script : what do you think of this gorgeous little church we found in the mountains :-
There was a wall of glass pieces on each side
which didn't look particularly spectacular until you got close up to it
but was really spectacular from the inside :-
As the church was locked up I had to take a photo through the bars on a little window in the door.
It must be lovely to sit in that little church with the sun streaming through all those little pieces of glass.
I also took some black alpaca to mix with it, mainly to extend the amount of wool I'd have when finished, but also because I planned to ply it with a strand of black alpaca and I thought it would blend better. The pale colours plied with a strand of black alpaca would have given a definite barber-pole effect that I wanted to avoid.
Ready for plying :-
The finished skein -
240g, 415yds/383m
This is how it looks knitted, but I'm considering using this for my first adventure with my weaving loom - probably a scarf for hubby!
A little post script : what do you think of this gorgeous little church we found in the mountains :-
There was a wall of glass pieces on each side
which didn't look particularly spectacular until you got close up to it
but was really spectacular from the inside :-
As the church was locked up I had to take a photo through the bars on a little window in the door.
It must be lovely to sit in that little church with the sun streaming through all those little pieces of glass.
Do you get a feel for the different fibers at all in such a blended mix?
ReplyDeleteNot totally. I could probably split it into 3 : merino/alpaca, silk/soy, and silk noil/nettle, though the nettle was a bit coarser.
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