50/50 Batts

My daily routine these days is produce batts in the early morning then spend a few hours spinning and plying the 50/50 Alpaca/Clun Forest blend.  The batts have the feel of Clun Forest, but are a lot softer than CF alone.  The CF makes the fiber much easier to spin at a medium weight single and the process of cleaning, washing and carding eliminates all but a few pieces of vegetable matter.

Two batts ready for spinning.

At about 4 hours to produce a skein of yarn and doing one every day or so, I should be able to deliver this order sometime around the middle of next month.

Other work at home recently was repairing/fixing things brought about by our first real thunderstorm of the season.  The rain came down in buckets and managed to erode quite a ditch down part of our gravel driveway.  The other casualty was our sunflower bed at the side of the shed.  The amount of water knocked the plants down and then they ended up with a coating of dirt/sand that washed over them.  Some staking and a gentle wash and they look like they are recovering.  I haven't checked the top garden, but will today and hopefully we should still have the seeds in the ground from a few days back.