A triple win of Fiber!

On a previous post I featured some blending I was trying with three fibers. I blended an Icelandic, black angora rabbit and white alpaca in this fine batt. It was a whole fleece of the Icelandic fleece with a whole angora rabbit fleece and a bunch of alpaca blended as it went on the drum carder.

If you look really close, you can see the guard hairs that are casting off the spun yarn. These are the guard hairs of the Icelandic fleece that were on the top of the fleece. This fleece had black guard hairs as well as a gray under coat which although somewhat on the coarse side, gave it a soft texture too.

I did not weigh the fleece prior to spinning but it did fill (after picture was taken) a whole Ashford Country Spinner spool! The weight of the yarns equaled 35.1 ounces, so in reality 3 pounds, 3 ounces! It was spun in bulky weight so it netted 428 yards of handspun yarn! The small white spool is to show a size comparison to the size of the big spool and yarn. 

Sadly once again, the picture just doesn't do it justice! This yarn along with the many others will be available so far at the only show that has not been cancelled, the New England Fiber Festival in Massachusetts in November. Covid19 has done a number on many Fiber Artist as well as other businesses. My hope is to see a back to normal one day. We may reopen our Etsy shop, but time will tell.