Hello Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday folks!
What a wonderful week of fiber surprises. When you send your shearing clip off to the mill often it seems like you’re sending it into oblivion. Initially you talk to the mill, making sure they know exactly what you want and then you wait. Depending on the backlog the mill may have you could be waiting 4 weeks or 4-6 months.
After 5 weeks I came home to find a box on the porch. I assumed it was my alpaca sock order and brought it in and set it to the side to “deal” with it in the morning. (Inventory is not my favorite thing in the world) Come morning I opened up the box and what a great surprise! 13 glorious pounds of alpaca/merino pin drafted roving greeted me though a clear plastic bag. Yippy! I have plenty of roving to spin, dye, and sell.
Immediately I took a small 6oz bump and started to spin to get a feel for the roving. Well I kept spinning morning and that night and plied it up. Remembering my Wonder Roving that I spun up during the Tour de Fleece I decided to tackle a hat. I haven’t finished it yet but here’s how far I got.
I should have the roving up for sale in our Shop this afternoon as well as our new shippment of socks!
