Weekending

Would it surprise you to hear that my weekend was full of wool? I bet not.

These are the braids of merino that I dyed late last week.

I'm thinking about plying this one with the other blue I posted on Friday.

This one was given to a friend who shared much fibery goodness that you will see later in this post.

My boys are currently obsessed with Avatar: The Last Airbender. This was supposed to be in tribute to the main character, Aang. But my colors didn't turn out exactly how I wanted them. It just looks like some tropical mess instead.

Query: Should I spin all of my rovings or sell some?

My earlier mentioned friend gave me some wool/mohair blend roving to play with, two huge trash bags of fleece to wash, and lent me her hand carders.

This is what I did while soaking the fleece in batches.

This is the llama/alpaca hybrid. I'm still not done picking the "crud" out of it (I've enlisted the Elf's help - he's being paid). So this is *way* less than half of it.

This is all of the llama. I picked it clean and washed it all over the weekend. Let me tell you, llamas are dusty creatures.