Last week I received some more roving in the mail that I bought off of Etsy.com. It is six ounces of bliss, otherwise known as plain white corriedale. I was immediately impressed by the slight sheepy musk emanating from the mass. It feels a lot different from the silk/merino mix I had first--it is slightly rougher and drafts much more easily. I am able to get this yarn more consistent because (aside from the experience I gained from my last fiber batch) it's easier for me to draft it out more uniformly. I think the difficulty from the merino/silk was that the silk fibers seemed to be much longer than the merino fibers, which created more resistance to my pulling. Of course, this could be all my imagination. I have already spun a spindle-full. I want to ply this batch and have as little left over as possible. I rigged up a second spindle exactly the same as my first one so that I can leave the first batch on the spindle while I spin the second batch. I think it might make it easier to estimate when I have equal amounts to ply.
I'm lovin' the pure whiteness of the corriedale--I am positively humming with excitement about dyeing it. I don't know what color. I might dye it with Kool-Aid. Definitely not cherry. In high school I dyed my hair with cherry and the nauseatingly sweet smell lasted through more washings than you can imagine. Also, the color lasted a LONG time. Even after the red wore off you could still see touches of pink in some of my blonder strands.
I also hope that people are right about wool being warm in the winter and cool in the summer. I'm having a blast creating all of these woolen wearables. I don't want to give them up when it gets hot here. Otherwise I will just have to learn how to spin cotton, or knit/crochet lacy things and handbags.
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