365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
It's Mango Time!
Day 203: One of my fiber suppliers always includes appropriate product samples with each shipment. When I placed an order for several bags of Corriedale roving recently, he threw in 10 grams (plus or minus) of a merino/silk combination in a colorway called "mango." It's been sitting on top of the harpsichord while I finished up a large bag of raw "cafe-au-lait" fleece, waiting for its test drive. While I am never likely to purchase or even use luxury fibers, I thought it would be interesting to spin it up at lace weight and double-ply it. What you see on the bobbin here is exactly half of the sample which, when doubled, isn't going to be enough to do anything with unless I use it to add a single row of "fuzzy" to the cast-on row of a hat. Next up, I'll be spinning a more practical alpaca/Romney blend in dark steel grey. I won't commit to spinning it at a lace weight until I've actually got it on the wheel, but that's what I hope to achieve.
Labels:
fiber,
merino/silk blend,
sample,
spinning
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