Hi, Holly.
I'm so jealous. I haven't been able to set up my loom in 9 years since I
moved out to the farm. This summer I plan to get her up and running again.
All your projects sound great.
I've been reading your combing issues. I taught myself combing from Peter
Teal's book also. I finally remember what I did with my newly oiled wool:
I put in it a stainless steel bowl in a 150 degree F oven for about 20
minutes. It really helped the wool absorb the oil and made my combing
easier. I use Indigo Hound's 5-pitch English Combs. I have tried the same
oil-and-cook method with drum carding, too, and it helped with avoiding
nepps on some really fine corriedale I was having issues with.
So currently, I'm coming to the tail end of spinning a pound of singles of
some wool roving that I dyed. I'm planning on 3-plying it as soon as I
modify my lazy kate to accept my WooLee Winder bobbins. I've been using a
shoe box with knitting needles for 2-ply stuff, but my feet are too small
for the box to fit 3 bobbins.
Otherwise, I'm finishing up my last UFO. It's one of the Prisilla
Gibson-Roberts wimples from Knitting in America. I'm about 1/4 of the way
through the lace edging around the bottom. I really am beginning to hate
this thing.
Next up is blending some white wool with some grey wool and spinning it up
to use as the main color in a fair-isle yoked sweater, I think. I have 4
pounds of dye and 5 pounds of acid crystals coming from Prochemical. There
may be a dyeing frenzy in my future. Summer's here.
Tracy J in East Northcentral Minneota
http://blog.myspace.com/sisypheanranch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Holly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: so what's everyone up to?
Not so much gardening that you can't enjoy fiber work, I hope! :)
I'm still working on the towels on the AVL--
Got an overshot table runner on the Schacht
Spinning a boucle yarn for the spinning guild's project
Haven't yet gotten back to the oily combing :)
And I've taken some 3 ply light sport weight yarn I spun from rainbow dyed
Merino top in fall colors and begun working with it again.
And I bought a lovely spindle at the Spring Fiber Fling, and a beautiful
skein of sock yarn from Trekking--4 plies, each variegated lovely oranges
:)
Holly
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