Spinning - Huacaya Alpaka - Knavesmire Axel

 

yesterday this fantastic fleece arrived at my doorsteps
i wasnt able to open the box straight away, but the pleasure was HUGE when i did today :D

its the fleece of Knavesmire Axel, he was born May 2012, and this cute little baby lives in England :D :D

i am soo sad i am not able to catch the true colours of the fleece, its like dark dark chokolate, with a hue of reddish in the middle, and golden tips
its so fine, like angels hair, and i just love to run my fingers through it

the bad part of such a delightfull fleece, it takes literally ages to pick the vegetables out, and sort it.
and its a HUGE pile of it :D

PICK PICK PICK
and not even half of it done
but can you see the cloud of cobweb like fluff ?
sadly, the time runs, and the fleece still seems as big as to begin with :/

but stay tuned, i will arrive the state of spinning it sooner or later :D

Spinning - Huacaya Alpaca - contract

 

finished the contract of lovele Jelanis fleece Spinning - Huacaya Alpaca - contract :D

1 strand was made into "art yarn" :D
was much more complex then you can see here,
its a blue single, plyed with silk
two times, and this then was plyed with the white single, so actually a 5 ply :)

while i was working on the fleece, i desided to rent a drumcarder, and i made some batts - it sure goes much faster then with handcarders :D

this is how i did it before the drumcarder - always 2 oz of rollags in a package, took me a night to make 4 oz !

and i am a good girl, i was not just before spinning, but also after spinning :D :D
but i see a pot of noodles here *lol*

so i had in the end 1 strand with 2 oz, rather thin spun

and 4 strands with 4 oz in a bit thicker yarn and 4 oz strand of art yarn :)

it already arived in USA and i hope the new owner is happy with it as i was