Get your daily fiber!

I have been super busy this last week! Spinning, knitting, skirting, sorting....yes, I am finally getting that bathtub full of fiber taken care of. I might actually be able to take a bath this weekend. Since June, our garden tub has been full of garbage bags full of fiber. Why? Well, because if I put them in the basement my dogs will eat the fiber. NOTE: Alpaca fiber does not make a dog regular.

Well, I have been sorting through the fiber to wash it and prepare it to be made into rugs. This fiber is all the thirds ( belly, legs, scraps) from shearing day. I wanted to go through it to see what is good for making rugs. Well, I am not sure if it's worth it. Literally, there is a lot of crap involved!

I will give it a go though. I also have one boy whose micron count was over 30 so he automatically became rug material.

Well, I am almost done...halfway done. I can only do a bit each day. First because I don't have the largest space to wash it all and second because I only have a couple of sweater racks to dry it all on. Once I am done, I will weigh all the bags and see my overall weight then I will call the weaving company and talk "alpaca" with them about how I want the fiber woven. I am curious how this experiment will turn out. I have felt some nice alpaca rug and also felt some ruff stuff. Using thirds....who knows?

Meanwhile I am still knitting away at my Kidney Kozie. The deadline is Labor Day. I don't think I will have it completed by then but I will do my best to get as far as possible. If I don't make this deadline I will have a great headstart for next years challenge. I am a slow knitter so it's a tough challenge for me. At least I got my Hope Lodge Square done first.

Honestly, I would get a whole lot more knitting done if I wasn't so obsessed with spinning. I love my Ashford Elizabeth a even more I love my Wonder Rovings. I am trying to spin some up so I can sell yarn to people who don't spin. The pics I have attached are the process of the spinning. First is my boy, Baronson's Haze, who donated his blanket to me. Then I had it turned into roving where the mill blended it with merino top and finally I spun it into the yarn you see.

I LOVE IT! I hope someone else does too. I am really happy with how it turned out.

So tomorrow....back to the knitting and back to the skirting and you know there will be more spinning!