I recently indulged myself with an afternoon of one of my favourite fibre-related pastimes - making batts. Don't ask me why, but I just love making them. My neighbour's birthday was looming and, because it's difficult to make her a cake or other sweet treats (she's dairy and gluten intolerant) I decided to boost her fibre intake.
This is where my World of Wool floor sweepings (Botany lap waste) come in handy. I've collected a fair amount of different colours over the years so it's easy to go through matching up and finding contrasts. I also included some tussah silk and mohair. I went with blues because that's a fairly safe colour - I know Tammy likes blue.
I weighed about 220g of fibres and split them into manageable amounts that the drum carder could handle. These were put through twice only as I like to leave them with some obvious colour changes in there.
The colours look quite muted here, but that's probably because the deeper colours are underneath. It's only when they're taken off the carder and rolled up that the magic happens.
I called these "Mermaids Dreams" and listed the ingredients as "Sea Snail Silk, Mermaids Tresses, Iridescent Seahorse droppings, mixed with a good helping of seabed sweepings." The sea snail silk was the tussah silk, the Mermaids tresses were mohair, and the Iridescent seahorse droppings were, I think, possibly merino mixed with iridescent fibres, probably trilobal nylon. Hubby was rather confused when he read the label . . . "Where on earth did you buy that lot?" he asked!! đ
This is where my World of Wool floor sweepings (Botany lap waste) come in handy. I've collected a fair amount of different colours over the years so it's easy to go through matching up and finding contrasts. I also included some tussah silk and mohair. I went with blues because that's a fairly safe colour - I know Tammy likes blue.
I weighed about 220g of fibres and split them into manageable amounts that the drum carder could handle. These were put through twice only as I like to leave them with some obvious colour changes in there.
The colours look quite muted here, but that's probably because the deeper colours are underneath. It's only when they're taken off the carder and rolled up that the magic happens.
I called these "Mermaids Dreams" and listed the ingredients as "Sea Snail Silk, Mermaids Tresses, Iridescent Seahorse droppings, mixed with a good helping of seabed sweepings." The sea snail silk was the tussah silk, the Mermaids tresses were mohair, and the Iridescent seahorse droppings were, I think, possibly merino mixed with iridescent fibres, probably trilobal nylon. Hubby was rather confused when he read the label . . . "Where on earth did you buy that lot?" he asked!! đ
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