I've been messing around with this skein of angora for a couple of days. I spun it from Junior's first haircut, which was all his baby fluff, and other matts and combings of agouti from various times that I stuck in that tupperware. I wanted something a little more durable than my last skein of (single) angora, so I figured I'd ply it with something, and I tried some vintage thread. I did all kinds of different wrapping - autowrapping, candy-striping, just wrapping the hell out of long sections, and also a lot of just plain wiggly plying. It worked ok except that with the shorter fibers, where there was some slippage when the angora would unwrap with the plying. And I just wasn't that thrilled with the overall (very grey) result - I am addicted to putting stuff in my yarn! So tonight I plied again, with more colorful threads, and added some vintage pearls and rhinestones. I made it way thick in sections with supercoils and granny stacks. So even though I tortured this poor yarn, it's cool-looking since in places it looks like bunny and in others kind of like chenille, plus it'll be a lot stronger than even two-plied angora. I'm glad to find a good use for all those little bits of fur that are flying around the house!
Good for you! It is beautiful. You will really accelerate your skills with Lexi, especially since you are already doing these techniques. I was a rank beginner at the novel ways of spinning...I didn't even know how to core spin. So my learning curve was steep.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it cool to find a good use for your dust bunnies?