So I huffed and I puffed and then I PLUCKY FLUFFED…….
This is my second workshop this year and my brain is in overdrive. When I first got into the workshop room I was thrilled to see all the spinning wheels, but more than that…there were two tables covered with fibre….The urge to strip off my clothes and dive in was only outweighed by the possibility of being arrested and missing the workshop.
I buy my fibre dyed in rovings and/or carded and blended for me. It give me a base to work from and has always been good for my creative self….UNTIL I saw this…
I will have one…oh yes, I will, I will brown bag my lunches, cut back on fancy coffees, take in laundry and do whatever it takes to own one, short of stealing it. It freakin changed my life.
It does this……
And turns the puffs and loose mohair and bits of fun stuff and makes this……
At this point I may have actually squealed but due to conversations and so many wheels a’ spinnin’, I don’t think anyone else heard me. This is what I managed to card in class…
I didn’t spin as much as I wanted to, but I was only there for one day of the workshop. I managed to spin my licorice allsorts and threw a few skittles into the mix…
I can hardly wait to knit it…It will be my new scarf this year. But without a double the most fun was extra carded mohair mixed with angora for this ball of lovely bunny goodness.
Imagine a cloud, and then imagine something even softer and that’s what I spun. This technique is incredible. It’s like adding miniature puffs to the wheel only moderately spun…Its almost hollow. The best thing about it is that the whole ball of yarn was probably only an ounce, but let me tell you, it was an OUNCE with BOUNCE…….It was so large I had to finger knit it…
A sliver of the completed FO, now having found itself a lovely home in Australia….Bye little fluffy bunny. I didn’t really get a chance to know you, but you will have a good home with an artist who will love you and take care of you!
There was so much more about the class to talk about, but I have to go and fondle some fibre now. I promise to fill in the blanks later. Online to search for my carder now.