Over the Christmas holiday, I pulled out my much-neglected cream colored Angora. This is fluff I started spinning back in October 2018. I can’t remember the last time I touched it, though I have evidence that I was working on it in 2019.
I was surprised that after not touching a supported spindle for quite some time, working with the short slippery Angora in a long draw came more easily and with less frustration than I remembered. I think some of the very thin long draw I’ve done over the past couple years since starting to spin for Andean back-strap weaving* must have helped.
In any case, I completed spinning up the cream fibers last week, and now I’ve wound the singles only an old toilet paper roll. I’m using a lazy Kate to hold the roll plus my bobbin of silk thread for plying the angora with the silk thread. This should create a strong yarn while allowing for some fuzz of the angora to give a bit of halo. I have the one little skein I’d previously completed, and have started plying the rest of it.
One handy part about plying to existing thread – it’s easy to count off each 100yds as that’s the amount of thread on each bobbin. My first tiny little skein is in fact 100yds of Angora and silk.
On a whim, I finally ordered the black alpaca and silk rainbow which I’ve been eyeing on Upstream Alpacas for almost as long as I’ve been working on this angora.
*no, I haven’t finished this spinning yet either.