Last Friday, a friend gave me an unwashed partial Navajo Churro fleece to mess around with. The next day, I set out washing the fleece and letting it air dry. The following day, I lightly carded about half of the wool with my vintage hand carders (they're actually cotton carders, but they worked fine for what I had in mind). After carding, I began rough spinning on my Lendrum spinning wheel until I had three single-ply skeins of yarn (somewhere between fingering and sport weight). Then, I dyed them using RIT dye (I have Jacquard acid dyes, but I wanted to test these out, so I just used RIT) and let them dry overnight. I plan to use these for an upcoming weaving project, so stayed tuned!
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| unwashed fleece |
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| washing the fleece |
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| hand carding wool |
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| carded wool |
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| spinning single plyed skeins |
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| undyed skein |
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| Rit dyed skeins |
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