BrambleStitches

Remember back in January, when I said I was almost finished spinning this fleece? Well I didn’t finish it that night. In fact, I didn’t finish it until yesterday afternoon. But at least I did finish it. I’m very excited to get to knit this up soon. (Click any picture for a larger view.)

Here’s the entire fleece (except for two skeins I gave away), The skeins on the right are two-ply, and somewhere between sock and sport weight. The skeins and ball on the left are singles, and of varying thickness.

I’ll knit most of this yarn into socks for our family. When the yarn was processed, we had some nylon carded in.

I’ll knit a couple of wool soakers out of this yarn. I processed this part of the fleece myself, so there is no nylon in it. The residual lanolin left in the yarn will help repel moisture. And just so we’re clear, carding a fleece by hand takes a long time. A long long time.

You can see the big texture difference here between the yarn spun from my hand carded rolags (left) and the yarn spun from the commercially washed and carded roving.

You can see the slight color difference between the minimally washed (just hot water and a little dish soap) skein on top, and the commercially washed skeins below.

Spinning