This is hand dyed fibre from "Fleece Artist". The spindle is bloodwood and ebony from "Spindlewood Co". Although I had just gone through a darker bronze bit which you see on the spindle, the braid is mostly the golden to rosy colour.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Spindling Project
While I'm primarily a wheel spinner, I always have a project in progress on my one good spindle. It's almost always 50/50 merino/silk which I like to spin at a laceweight.
This is hand dyed fibre from "Fleece Artist". The spindle is bloodwood and ebony from "Spindlewood Co". Although I had just gone through a darker bronze bit which you see on the spindle, the braid is mostly the golden to rosy colour.
This is hand dyed fibre from "Fleece Artist". The spindle is bloodwood and ebony from "Spindlewood Co". Although I had just gone through a darker bronze bit which you see on the spindle, the braid is mostly the golden to rosy colour.
gorgeous (as always)!
ReplyDeleteI am always amazed by how much darker fleece spins at. Yours looks beautiful, and yet not what I would expect from the roving! I like how you spin it, too, in a criss-cross fashion. I've never seen that before, but it would help my work a lot. I'm going to have to try it.
ReplyDeleteResplendent! :)
ReplyDeleteLike I mentioned in the blog post Carrie, I had just spun a portion of the roving that WAS indeed darker than what you see visible in the predrafted balls. MOST of the braid was the lighter colour but a few spots are that dark bronze colour.
ReplyDeleteThe way it looks criss-crossed on the spindle is just from the way I wind on. I rotate the spindle at a slight angle so that it goes down the shaft and back up again and winds on evenly. I find the the spindle seems to spin longer if I keep the weight of the wound on singles fairly close to the shaft rather than piling it right under the whorl.
Wow, very pretty!
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