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Sunday April 5, 2009
Llama
I finally finished spinning the last of the llama fleece my sister gave me - the cream colour. I have finally chosen something to knit from it - based on my sister's expressed wish that I "knit myself a nice scarf or something", and finding a pattern shown in similar colours in my "Fine Fleece" book.
I did start with the main colour in brown and the contrast in cream,
(this was the colour option shown in the book), but this did not work
out, so I started again. The brown was the first bag of llama that I tackled
and I spun it into a thicker yarn than the cream; the pattern itself has
a different quality of yarn for the contrast stripes - a mohair - which
I thought may have been thicker than the main, and my hunch paid off as
the result with the yarns swapped is quite good.
In knitting with this - the first and the last colour I spun - I find
my spinning and plying has improved a little. The cream colour is pretty
acceptable on the whole.
Posted by Christina at 5:11 PM. Category: Spinning, Dying, Weaving
Comments
Is your mama a llama?... uh oh wrong blog...the scarf looks lovely and from this distance (6000 miles) it looks just like a good commercial yarn (which I mean as a compliment).
Posted by: Alison on April 16, 2009 4:52 PM
