During our recent week in the mountains (a cabin just north of Linden/Front Royal - tucked in beside the GR Thompson State Wildlife Management Area - which contains a section of the Appalachian Trail) we spent some of our time carding and spinning. All CF wool which had been washed, so Anne flick carded the locks and then ran them through the drum carder. The resultant batts were beautiful to spin, and I was able to produce a little over 300 yards of two ply fine/sport weight yarn. Anne also had her second go on the spinning wheel and produced a reasonable skein (far better than my first attempts).
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| Spinning in the living room (from upstairs) |
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| Anne producing yet another batt (and my one, at that stage, skein) |
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| Top to bottom: batts, skeins, flicked wool, washed locks |
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| The final tally - 301 yards |
I'm going to look into knitting some of this wool (and maybe add in some of the blue dyed, but as yet unspun batts) into a hat or two. If I keep the colors similar to the scarves they could go as a set.
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