Spinning: A Woollen Gradient Yarn

Sunday, February 5, 2023

The previous post lauds the new project fleece I bought...and herein we discuss processing & spinning a fleece by hand. By this point, I've already scoured the fleece and sorted it into six gradients. For the Tour de Fleece I tackled a chunk of this project one day at a time. I began with Gradient 3, then 2, 1, 4, 5, and 6. So each gradient was hand-carded into rolags, then spun into 3 plies, then plied, washed & dried before moving on to the next gradient in the series. This was largely due to a limitation in bobbins! Ideally, you'd card all the gradients, then spin all the plies in random order to create a more consistent yarn. But I think these came out alright anyways!

Hand Carding

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 1: hand carding FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 4: hand carding

Rolags

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 4: rolags FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 5: rolags
FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 3: rolags

Spinning

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 3: spinning FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 5: spinning
FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 1:  all 3 plies

Plying

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 6: plied

Drying

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 3: drying FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 5: drying

Finished!

FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 1: done! FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 2: done! FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 3: done! FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 4: done FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 5: done FinnXFriesian Fleece:: Gradient 6: done

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