Here is the spin to knit tag. I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it or not!My favorite thing to spin, or rather the most comfortable thing, is wool. I have a shetland fleece in a natural fawn color that I have been combing. It is a dream to spin. This stuff just wants to be yarn. I used to have sheep (Romney and Finn-Dorset), that is how I got into this fiber mess, but the sheep have been gone for a few years now. I have also spun cotton, soysilk, silk, flax, dog hair, alpaca, tencel, angelina fiber, and nylon. I would like to work with flax a little more. It would be great to be good enough with it to weave a nice towel or something.
I enjoy dyeing very much. I have dyed clean, unprocessed wool, roving, yarn, silk, cotton, and cloth. I enjoy the Twisted Sisters Sock Book. I have used several of their dyeing techniques. I'm not very exact. I add dye until it looks right, though I mix stock solutions using measurements, but I don't weigh anything. Handpainted roving is alot of fun to make and spin (and knit, come to think of it).
Most of the yarn I make is plain vanilla yarn, two ply, good for knitting. I have also enjoyed adding beads. I made a wonderful mohair boucle sometime in the last year that is waiting to become something. That is one of the most exciting finished yarns that I have done, though I really hated the last pass through the wheel. I like to treadle very quickly, on a high-ratio for most of my spinning, and I had to do this slowly so my hands could keep up.
Enough for now!
